Greece confirmed 7,805 new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, with 11 of these identified at entry points to the country, the National Public Health Organization (EODY) said on Friday.
Since the pandemic began, Greece has confirmed 868,868 infections. In the confirmed cases of the last 7 days, 113 infections are related to travel from abroad and 3,204 to other confirmed cases.
There are also 91 deaths recorded in the last 24 hours, bringing the total of pandemic victims to 17,168. Of these, 95.3 pct had an underlying condition and/or were aged 70 or over.
A total of 575 patients are on ventilators in hospitals. Their median age is 65 years and 84.3 pct have an underlying condition and/or are aged 70 or over. Of the total, 475 (82.61 pct) are unvaccinated or partly vaccinated and 100 (17.39 pct) are fully vaccinated.
Another 3,434 have been discharged from ICUs since the pandemic began.
The median age of new infections is 38 years (range: 0.2 to 106 years), while the median age of the deceased is 78 (range: 0.2 to 106 years).
Iliopoulos: PM Mitsotakis has capitulated to the pandemic
“Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has capitulated in the battle against the pandemic,” stated main opposition SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance spokesperson Nassos Iliopoulos in an interview with Kokkino FM radio in Thessaloniki on Friday.
“Yesterday, Mitsotakis was once again quick to admire himself and spoke of a ‘flawless’ information campaign for vaccination,” Iliopoulos pointed out, despite the fact that there were currently 600,000 unvaccinated people above 60 years old in Greece.
Speaking to Alpha radio earlier on Friday, Iliopoulos said that Greece had already mourned 1,137 deaths from COVID-19 in November, while Mitsotakis and his government were refusing to answer questions on how many had died outside an ICU and on the mortality rate within ICUs.
In order for lives to be saved, he added, it was essential to immediately requisition the private clinics, giving priority to ‘red zone’ areas for Covid. Iliopoulos stressed that the “solution is not to requisition the services of private doctors but to add the private clinics, which are still covid-free, in the fray.” He also noted that the public health system has become a “one-disease system” as vital surgeries are being cancelled, adding that it was “no coincidence that cancer diagnoses have dropped by 20 percent”.
Finally, he said that working remotely should return wherever possible in the public and private sector in order for the spread of the pandemic to slow.