Like hardly any other country in the European Union, Greece is fighting against the delta variant of the corona virus. Around 70 percent of those infected are affected.
Athens – The Greek health authorities are sounding the alarm: The incidence in the country on the Aegean Sea continues to rise *. On Thursday, July 22, 2021, it was already 179.6. For comparison: around three weeks ago, the number of new Covid 19 infections extrapolated to 100,000 people within seven days was still 28.8. The biggest problem with this: the delta variant. Experts warn that the mutation of the corona virus could account for around 70 percent of the infection rate in just a few days.
| State in the European Union: | Greece |
| Capital: | Athens |
| Surface: | 131,957 square kilometers |
| Residents: | 10,718,565 (as of January 2020) |
| Head of State: | President Katerina Sakellaropoulou |
| Head of Government: | Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis |
The transmission rate of the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus in Greece is “terrifying,” said the president of the National Public Health Organization in Greece (EODY), Panagiotis Arkoumaneas, on Thursday.
Incidence in Greece: “Around 99 percent of those infected with the Delta variant are not vaccinated”
“We will have an increase in cases this week and next, but we have to look at the age of those infected and see if they are intubated in the intensive care unit or if we have any deaths,” said Arkoumaneas. And further: “Around 99 percent of those currently infected with the Delta variant have not yet been vaccinated.”
Greece is fighting with the Delta variant: Around 70 percent of the infections can be traced back to Delta
The delta variant is already dominant in Greece for new infections in connection with Sars-CoV-2. But the health authorities expect a further significant increase in the variant.
Arkoumaneas assumes a weekly increase of up to ten percent and expects that more than 70 percent of those infected in Greece will soon be affected. The head of the health authority identifies the Greek islands as particularly bad regions. In fact, the Greeks are worried about a new corona lockdown so that Greece’s vacationers could run away in the summer months.
Corona incidence in Greece: fourth of the Covid 19 diseases – “we didn’t expect it to be that fast”
On the other hand, the pathologist and expert on infectious diseases at the General Hospital in Athens, Marios Lazanas, is surprised at the time of the fourth wave of Covid 19 diseases. “To be honest, we expected it, but we didn’t expect it to be so soon,” Lazanas told the TV broadcaster Skai.
Delta is much more contagious and at the same time vaccinations in Greece are not as advanced as they should. “The vaccinations have been greatly reduced. People went on vacation and there is a problem, ”said Lazanas.
The Greek health authorities will probably have to sound the alarm again and again in the next. * Kreiszeitung.de and merkur.de are offers from IPPEN.MEDIA.
