The number of COVID-related deaths in Greece have reached 14,956 from February 2020 until Monday.
In September alone, one of the harshest months in Greece since the start of the pandemic, there were 1,100 deaths related to COVID-19, with around 300 people per week succumbing to the pandemic.
The majority of those who died in September were aged more than 65 years, and in their majority, were unvaccinated.
More than 40 per cent of deaths so far were documented around the hospitals of Macedonia and Thrace where the second wave of the pandemic swept through.
In Athens, 5,500 people succumbed to the virus and 3,000 deaths were noted in the Peloponnese, and 400 died in Crete.
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDPC) states that the Greek death rate for the last 14 days have been at a ratio of 47 deaths for every one million people. Greece’s numbers are quite high, but better than Romania (75:1 million), Lithuania (80.5 deaths:1 million) and Bulgaria (139 deaths:1 million).