Chinanews.com, August 26. According to the Greek "China Greek Times" report, on the evening of the 25th local time, the Greek National Public Health Organization announced that there were 3,273 new confirmed cases of new crowns in Greece in the past 24 hours, with a total of 570,077 confirmed new cases; There were 42 deaths and a total of 13,509 deaths.
Another area implements emergency restrictions
Due to the worsening of the epidemic situation, the Greek government decided to take emergency restrictive measures in Messinia, located in the Peloponnese Peninsula.
Related measures include: implementing a curfew from 1 am to 6 am, during which time people are only allowed to travel for work or health reasons, and clubs, bars and cafes are not allowed to play music to prevent overcrowding.
The above measures will continue until September 1, after which the Health Expert Committee will evaluate the epidemic situation again.
At the same time, private and public places in the area are forbidden to hold gatherings of more than 20 people in any form, and tenants or operators who violate the regulations will be fined 50,000 to 200,000 euros.
In addition, the government also announced the extension of restrictions on the three places of Chania, Heraklion and Rethymnon on the island of Crete until September 1.
Experts recommend wearing a double-layer mask
As the highly contagious delta strain continues to spread in Greece, Greek health experts recommend that people wear double-layer masks to reduce the chance of infection.
The study found that wearing masks in two ways can improve the protective effect.
The first is to wear a double-layer mask: first put on a medical mask, and then put on a cloth mask outside.
The second is to make the medical mask fit the face tighter. The method is to tie the drawstrings on both sides of the mask to reduce the gap between the mask and the face.
Vaccine effectiveness raises concerns
Pfizer CEO Bura said on the 24th local time that at some point in the future, there is likely to be a variant of the new crown virus that is resistant to the vaccine.
He said that Pfizer can produce a new version of the vaccine to combat the variant within three months after the discovery of the variant virus.
In addition to worrying about the emergence of vaccine-resistant new crown variants, British researchers also recently said that the protective efficacy provided by Pfizer and AstraZeneca's two coronavirus vaccines began to weaken within half a year of completing the vaccination.
As far as Pfizer vaccine is concerned, 5 to 6 months after the second dose of the new crown vaccine, the effective rate of infection prevention will drop from 88% to 74%; while the AstraZeneca vaccine is 4 to 5 months after the completion of the vaccination. Month, the effective rate dropped from 77% to 67%.
According to the report, this study analyzed data collected from the UK's new crown research application (ZOE COVID), including more than 1.2 million test results. Spector, the lead researcher of the study, said that in the worst case, the protection rate of the elderly and medical staff may be less than 50% in the winter. (Cai Ling)