Coronavirus: 5,641 new cases in Greece today - 69 dead and 665 intubated

The National Public Health Organization (EODY) announced on Wednesday afternoon (22/12) that the number of laboratory-confirmed new cases of coronavirus is 5,641, of which 8 were detected following checks at the country's entry gates. On 13-19 December, the total number of patients aged 4-18 years is 8,355, making up 27% (4% from the previous week)in the total number of cases.

The total number of cases is 1,049,936 (daily change +0.5%), of which 50.4% are males. Based on confirmed cases in the last 7 days, 214 are considered to be associated with travel from abroad and 2,964 are associated with an already known case.

The Rt for the territory based on the cases is estimated at 0.96 (95% CI: 0.87 - 1.05).

The cases today in Attica
In Attica today, 22/12/2021, 2,307 new cases were detected according to EODY. The distribution of cases in Attica today is as follows:

East Attica 245
Athens North Sector 370
West Attica 90
Western Sector Athens 326
Athens Central Sector 744
Islands 21
Athens South Sector 231
Piraeus 280

Details of the dispersion of the new cases in the rest of Greece today
The distribution of new cases of coronavirus in Greece (except Attica), by regional unit, is as follows:

Thessaloniki 776
Aitoloakarnania 62
Argolida 34
Arcadia 31
Arta 16
Achaia 119
Boeotia 45
Grevena 6
Drama 33
Evros 90
Evia 102
Evrytania 12
Zakynthos 2
Ilia 43
Imathia 44
Heraklion 115
Thassos 2
Thesprotia 12
Thera 4
Ikaria 1
Ioannina 51
Kavala 56
Kalymnos 2
Karditsa 29
Kastoria 20
Corfu 71
Kilkis 45
Kozani 116
Corinthia 52
Kos 3
Laconia 62
Larissa 107
Lasithi 6
Lesvos 95
Lefkada 6
Lemnos 1
Magnesia 93
Messinia 75
Milos 2
Mykonos 3
Naxos 1
Xanthi 37
Pella 43
Pieria 55
Preveza 22
Rethymno 56
Rodopi 44
Rhodes 40
Samos 4
Serres 90
Syros 9
Tinos 1
Trikala 18
Fthiotida 69
Florina 31
Fokida 2
Halkidiki 27
Chania 149
Chios 7
Under investigation 207

There are 69 new deaths of COVID-19 patients, with a total of 20,126 deaths recorded since the start of the epidemic. 95.2% had underlying disease and/or age 70 years or older.

The number of hospitalized intubated patients is 665 (61.4% men). Their median age is 63 years. 78.9% have an underlying disease and/or age 70 years or older. Among intubated patients, 553 (83.16%) are unvaccinated or partially vaccinated and 112 (16.84%) are fully vaccinated. Since the beginning of the pandemic, 3,691 patients have been discharged from ICUs.

New Covid-19 patient admissions to hospitals in the territory are 370 (daily change +25.42%). The seven-day average admission rate is 333 patients.

Conducting tests
In the last 24 hours 24,818 molecular tests and 322,027 rapid tests were performed. In total 346,845 positivity is estimated at 1,62%.

In the week 13-19 December, the positivity rate was 1.33% in a total of 2,324,134 laboratory tests (RT-PCR/Rapid-Ag) and 0.25% in a total of 3,967,270 self-diagnostic tests.