China News Service, January 28. According to the Greek "China Greek Times" report, on the evening of January 27 local time, the National Public Health Organization of Greece announced that Greece had a total of 154,083 confirmed cases of new crowns and a total of 5724 deaths.
Experts said that the Greek flu outbreak season is approaching, and the epidemic prevention work will face an arduous test.
Data map: On November 15, 2020 local time, Athens, Greece, there was no one on the streets of the city.
Professor Ansanosios Dimopoulos, President of the University of Athens, said that the Committee of Experts on the New Crown of the Ministry of Health is ready to propose new measures when necessary.
He emphasized that according to the data of previous years, February to mid-March is the season of influenza outbreak in Greece, so the epidemic prevention work will also face an arduous test during this time.
He pointed out that if the number of cases and hospitalization continues to increase, new measures will be imperative.
At the same time, he also said that in-depth analysis of the new data should be carried out in the next 5-7 days, so that preventive measures can be taken as soon as possible before the new cases cause the burden on hospitals and intensive care units.
Dimopoulos once again emphasized the importance of vaccination, especially to achieve the goal of vaccinating half of the population before the summer.
He explained that there are two main reasons for the delayed delivery of the vaccine.
First, large pharmaceutical companies have overestimated or exaggerated the expected production and sales of vaccines; second, vaccines are also flowing to markets outside Europe at the same time.
Earlier in the day, Professor Dimosanis Salyani of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki said that the emergence of mutant strains has changed the epidemiological distribution of the new coronavirus.
With the general resumption of work in the retail industry, the situation in Athens is particularly worrying.
According to the new epidemiological model, Greece will face a daily increase of 1,670 cases at the end of February.
Haralambos Gogos, a professor of pathology and infectious diseases, pointed out that in the past few days, the viral load across the country has increased, and the number of cases in Athens accounted for 50% of the country's cases.
He said that although the new crown expert committee has made a decision to resume classes in middle schools, if the epidemiological data deteriorates further, the school is likely to close again.
"We must remain vigilant, because if there is a problem with the Athens epidemic, it will cause serious problems."