The daily briefing by Greek health authorities reported 18,869 new coronavirus cases and 81 deaths on Thursday. The National Organization for Public Health (EODY) also stated that there are currently 688 intubated patients in Intensive Care Units across Greece.
The new cases were identified from 323,060 tests, a positivity rate of 5.84 per cent
The total number of coronavirus cases in Greece since the start of the pandemic rose to 1,742,363, with the total number of deaths over the same period reaching 22,366.
The number of new coronavirus infections in Greece is subsiding, member of the Health Ministry’s COVID committee Vana Papaevangelou said at a regular live briefing on Thursday.
There are 170,000 active infections, and the weekly new infections average has dropped to approximately 20,000 per day. A 40 per cent of these fresh infections are people aged between 35 and 64 years of age, while a small rise in infections among the 60+ was registered this week. One in three COVID patients in hospitals is younger than 60.
Overall, the health expert said that an 80-85 per cent of COVID patients in ICUs are unvaccinated or partially vaccinated, and so is an 80 per cent of those who die of the disease and are aged below 60.
Papaevangelou stressed that a 93 per cent of people who died of COVID-19 in Greece had either not been vaccinated or had not received a third dose of a vaccine.