Coronavirus: The “tsunami” of cases brings … New Year’s Eve home
According to his information CNN Greece, the new decisions will be announced on Wednesday afternoon and their implementation will start at dawn on Thursday.
According to the new schedule, at 09:30 on Wednesday it will take place Meeting under Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, with the participation of the Ministry of Health Thanos Plevris and the chairman of the Committee of Specialists Sotiris Tsiodras, where the epidemiological picture of the country will be analyzed in detail.
A meeting of the Committee of Experts of the Ministry of Health will follow at 12:00, during which both the work of the package of measures in the light of the new data and their time will be examined.
Then, at noon on Wednesday, the decisions of the government will be announced, based on the new proposal of the Commission, with the beginning of early morning of Thursday December 30.
New Year’s Eve at home
Both from the time of implementation of the measures and from the interventions themselves that will be decided, it is safe to conclude that the New Year’s Eve will be held at home and not in restaurants and entertainment venues.
Specifically, according to the information, the possibility of closing the dining and entertainment areas is being considered. from 22:00 -and not at midnight, as originally announced. In addition, the issue of its prohibition is open music, as stated by the Minister of Health Thanos Plevris during the announcement of the measures on Monday.
There should be clear instructions for everything, government spokesman told SKAI’s main news bulletin Giannis Oikonomou, «Even for New Year’s Eve in the houses». In this sense, in addition to conducting a pre-New Year’s Eve test already recommended by the government, by providing free self-tests to citizens, further recommendations may be made. It is recalled that last year there was a provision for numbers of people who could be present at a table or festive.
At the same time, the government spokesman said that it is being examined increased testing for the return of students to schools to do so safely, while ruling out the possibility Curfew.
At the same time, the Minister of Health Thanos Plevris stated in the main news bulletin of Mega that there is no thought for non-opening of schools, while in terms of sports, he noted that after 15 days the measures are observed, there will be a second chance for the operation of the stadiums.
He said the measures already in place in churches, theaters and cinemas were adequate.
The measures that have already been announced will be valid until January 16:
- Compulsory use of a high respiratory protection mask or alternatively double mask, surgical or fabric (the recommendation does not choose the mask of high protection) both in supermarket supermarkets and public transport, as well as in the staff of restaurants. The general recommendation is not to use the mask of high respiratory protection in every case of congestion.
- In her space entertainment and catering, the opening hours are until 12.00 in the evening and entertainment for the upright is not allowed. Do not sit at the tables up to six people and metric distances will also apply. If the measures are found not to be complied with, the music will also stop, which at this stage is not allowed.
- Regarding sports venues and in particular pitches, where as the Minister of Health pointed out, non-observance of measures has been observed, restrictions are imposed on the attendance by the fans in 10% with a ceiling 1,000 people. If the measures are not followed, all races will be held behind closed doors.
- at care units for the elderly and the chronically ill the visit will be allowed only by test 48 hours PCR.
- In addition, those who visit patients in hospitals should show off 48 hours negative PCR, while the entrance is limited medical visitors in hospitals.
- As for teleworking, will apply to both public sector services and private companies up to 50%, while there will be and rolling schedule, which will be determined based on the capabilities of each service.
Dimopoulos on CNN Greece: Large dispersion, measures only to delay the 5th wave
In the aftermath of their announcement 21,657 new cases, talking to CNN Greece the doctor and rector of EKPA Athanasios Dimopoulos noted that we do not yet have clear data on whether the mutated strain has prevailed in our country, while there are important unanswered questions Around this. According to him, the dispersion is so great and at this stage we can only talk about delay of the fifth wave.
To the question of whether the meters that we have, or should do new, and possibly sooner, Mr. Dimopoulos answers:
“We must also look at the effectiveness of these measures that we have today in the first phase and see from the thousands of cases that we have every day, what will be the impact, in what percentage of these patients will be treated. Because we can have a large number of infections, but the number of people who are seriously ill seems to be smallerς. So we have to wait and see. Currently, we keep the measures as much as we can, we are vaccinated, we make the third installment as soon as possible and we see how the situation will develop “.
“The spread is so great that I do not know if additional measures or different measures could be more effective,” he said.
Pavlakis: The measures should have been taken in the fall
“We do not ignore the virus, because it can be destroyed. “We can not say that the pandemic in Greece is under any control,” said doctor and researcher George Pavlakis.
He stressed that meters it should be seen from autumn and how the “wisdom of the experts” should prevail.
“After two years of pandemic, we must not do the known and only make new mistakes,” he said.
“Tsunami” of cases
Today, Tuesday 28 December, EODY reports him shocking number of 21,657 new cases, which is a historical record since the appearance of the pandemic in the country and an increase with geometric progress compared to the data of the previous 24 hours. In terms of geographical distribution, 9,882 cases were detected in Attica and 2,665 in Thessaloniki.
At the same time, EODY 60 deaths in a 24 hour period. The number of intubated patients remains constant – today at 635 patients – but the number of new patient admissions to hospitals is increasing.
It is noted that in the last 24 hours, a viral load explosion is located in the sewage of areas such as Attica, Ioannina and Corfu.
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