A double blow to the National Health System since the problems caused by government indifference in the midst of a pandemic are added to those caused by the bad weather.
According to what was reported and indirectly admitted by the Minister of Health Thanos Plevris no preparation had been done in the hospitals to anticipate the situation. Similar complaints were made by Pavlos Polakis and by the PDEDIN.
The new laboratory-confirmed cases of the disease recorded in the last 24 hours are 17,409, of which 55 were detected following checks at the country's entry gates. The total number of cases is 1,830,263 (daily change +1.0%), of which 49.8% are males.
Based on the confirmed cases in the last 7 days, 401 are considered to be linked to travel from abroad and 1,750 are linked to an already known case.
New deaths of COVID-19 patients are 98, with a total of 22,852 deaths recorded since the start of the epidemic. 95.0% had underlying disease and/or age 70 years or older.
The number of hospitalized intubated patients is 653 (59.3% men). Their median age is 66 years. 83.0% have an underlying disease and/or age 70 years or older. Among intubated patients, 525 (80.4%) are unvaccinated or partially vaccinated and 128 (19.6%) are fully vaccinated. Since the beginning of the pandemic, 3,986 patients have been discharged from ICUs.
The admissions of new Covid-19 patients to hospitals in the territory are 432 (daily change -7.1%). The seven-day average admission is 484 patients.The median age of cases is 35 years (range 0.2 to 106 years), while the median age of deaths is 78 years (range 0.2 to 106 years)
