Update – 19/05/2021
May 19, 2021
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As of the latest update by the Greek authorities, the total number of confirmed Covid-19 diagnosed cases in Greece is 381,266. 63 new deaths were reported raising the total number to 11,534. The number of patients treated in intensive care units is currently 639. 2,812 new cases were announced yesterday in Greece. 1,425 of the new cases were found in the Attica region and 134 new cases in the Thessaloniki region.
Experts in Greece reassured the public on Tuesday that there are no indications of a Greek variant of the Covid-19 virus. There is nothing to indicate a Greek origin mutation, according to Gkikas Magiorkinis and National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Rector Thanos Dimopoulos, both of whom are professors at the NKUA School of Medicine.
On Monday, the President of the National Vaccination Committee, Maria Theodoridou, expressed concern for any mutated strain, as reports suggested that such a virus mainly existed in the center of Athens. Some reports named it the “Athenian variant.”
“Regarding the ‘Athenian variant’ that exists in the center of Athens, one cannot say that it does not cause concern. There are, however, special observation and recording systems and specialist geneticists and infectious disease specialists will monitor its evolution and let us hope that it will be very limited,” Theodoridou stressed.
Most frequent Covid variant in Greece
This method has now been abandoned in favor of a method that uses a combination of letters and numbers that indicate a strain’s evolutionary history, they added.
In the case of the variant B.1.1.318, which is the second most frequent variant detected in Greece in recent months, this was first reported in Nigeria but has already been detected in many other countries, including the United Kingdom, Belgium, Austrian, Germany, Sweden, Finland, France, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Slovenia, United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, Singapore, Bangladesh, Argentina, Gambia, Gambon and Turkey.
Consequently, the two professors noted, there is no indication that the specific strain is of Greek origin or in any way peculiar to Greece, while there is no clear evidence indicating that it is more transmissible, dangerous or less susceptible to vaccines and it’s not on the list of variants of concern.
In more detail, the 2,812 new cases detected per Regional Unit:
