Chinanews.com, April 13th. According to the Greek "China Greek Times" report, on the evening of April 12 local time, the Greek National Public Health Organization announced that in the past 24 hours, Greece had newly confirmed 1,606 new cases of new crowns, and a total of 297,086 cases have been confirmed so far. .
There were 76 new deaths on that day, with a total of 8961 deaths.
On November 15, 2020 local time, Athens, Greece, the streets of the city were empty.
According to reports, Vana Papavanjiglu, a member of the Greek Ministry of Health’s New Coronary Pneumonia Expert Committee and a pediatric infectious disease doctor, said in a recent interview with the media that out of preventive needs, the time that Greeks need to wear masks may last until 2022.
On April 12th local time, under the implementation of self-inspection measures and protective measures, Greek high schools have officially resumed classes.
However, some experts on the committee of the Greek Ministry of Health expressed strong concerns.
Seven experts voted against the opening of the school, including the chief infectious disease scientist Sotiris Zioderas.
Experts predict that the spread of the new coronavirus will expand with the opening of high schools, but the actual direction of the epidemic will not be finalized until ten days later.
In addition, due to the opening of schools, the viral load throughout Greece may increase during Easter.
This will also have a knock-on effect on industries that have been opened or are yet to be opened, such as the tourism industry that was originally scheduled to open on May 14.
At the same time, Greece once again extended restrictions on domestic and international flights.
On April 11, the latest notice from the Greek Civil Aviation Authority showed that due to the need for the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the restrictions on Greek domestic flights were extended to 6 am on April 19.
All Greek domestic flights are only allowed to travel necessary for health, work or family reasons; humanitarian flights, cargo flights, military, fire, medical and other flights are not affected by restrictions.
At present, Greece's flights to many countries and the entry ban for non-EU citizens outside the EU regulations will also be extended to 6 a.m. on April 19.
Regarding the new crown vaccination work, the Greek Minister of Health Kyrias said in an interview with Yatong News Agency on the 11th that Greece will start vaccinating the new crown vaccine for the general population over 40 years old in June, but only if the vaccine can be delivered as planned. Go smoothly.
He called on the elderly to get vaccinated as soon as possible, adding that the government will re-examine the issue of mandatory vaccination when the fall arrives.
Kikilias said: “From the perspective of the proportion of medical staff vaccinated, 80% of doctors have already received the new crown vaccine, but the proportion of nurses vaccinated is low. I believe this number will rise further. By the fall, we The issue of mandatory vaccination will be reviewed again.” He also added that the government hopes that the epidemic will improve significantly in May. (Cai Ling, Zhu Tianhao)