Athens, Greece – Greece registered on Tuesday 8,613 new cases of coronavirus in 24 hours, a record since the pandemic burst into the country in February 2020 and hospitals are starting to be saturated again.
Since the end of October, the number of contaminations has continued to increase and has gone from 3,600 new contaminations on October 29 to 6,150 a week later and 7,330 on Monday, according to figures published by the National Health Agency.Eody).
In addition, and according to official figures, Tuesday 45 people died and Monday 65. The region of the country most affected is the north, where there are fewer people vaccinated.
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Nikos Kapravelos, director of the emergency department at Papanikolaou hospital in Thessaloniki, Greece’s second city, warned of the risk of experiencing a situation similar to that of November last year, in the midst of the second wave of the pandemic.
Since last week and in the face of this increase in infections, health passport, which shows that the carrier is fully vaccinated, is also mandatory in restaurants and outdoor cafes in Greece and not just indoors.
“The pandemic is still there, the cases are multiplying as is happening in other countries of the European Union,” warned Marios Themistokleus, Secretary General of Health, at a press conference on Monday, explaining that 61 , 2% of the Greek population is fully vaccinated.
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