In the last 24 hours ending on Monday 3pm, Greece reported over 36,246 new COVID-19 infections from the 17,633 on Sunday when significantly less people tested.
Unfortunately, 78 deaths were also recorded, an increase from 61 on Sunday and 59 Saturday. Out of the people hospitalised, there are currently 615 patients on ventilators.
Meanwhile, 92 medical staff in Athens’ Evangelismos Hospital, one of the capital’s and Greece’s largest hospitals have tested positive. The much necessary professionals have been quarantined, while patient visits have been banned, in an already overwhelmed hospital.
As the number of infections in the community is extremely high, the Greek Government is seeking to introduce support measures to ensure more jobs will not be lost. The country’s economy had been recovering from the major hit of the financial crisis which put tremendous weight on the population for the best part of a decade. Now, once again Greek people are called to deal with the risk of inflation as national debt has soared to 350 billion euros and 2022 was already going to have a primary deficit.
It is uncertain how the fiscal will be kept low, but Greece’s Ministry of Finance is extensively looking into the budget deficit ahead of Greece’s emergence from the enhanced surveillance and the revision of the Stability Pact of the European Union.
