Update –26/04/2022
April 26, 2022
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As of the latest update by the Greek authorities, the total number of confirmed Covid-19 diagnosed cases in Greece 3,285,970. 66 new deaths were reported raising the total number to 28,933. The number of patients treated in intensive care units is currently 279. 8,413 new cases were announced yesterday in Greece. 3,112 of the new cases were found in the Attica region and 976 new cases in the Thessaloniki region.
Pupils will still be required to wear masks, but self-tests for Covid-19 will no longer be needed when classes resume next Tuesday, May 3.
Testing for the coronavirus will be limited to those showing symptoms.
If a pupil is tested positive for Covid, all classmates must self-test on the first and fourth days after the diagnosis.
The pupils taken ill will return to school no sooner than 24 hours after the fever has subsided.
Health authorities and scientists see a calm summer for the Covid-19 pandemic, but also a possible autumn upsurge when temperatures start to drop.
All relevant indicators tracking the spread of the coronavirus pandemic – number of new cases, hospitalizations, intubated patients and fatalities – have improved significantly over the past couple of weeks, to the relief of officials who were fretting over the impact of persistently high levels of infection on tourism.
This improvement is expected to continue, says Ghikas Magiorkinis, assistant professor at the Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics of the University of Athens, who specializes in tracking retroviruses.
“We expect the pandemic to subside in the summer, both because of the higher temperatures and the fact that a big segment of the population has either gotten sick or been vaccinated,” says Magiorkinis, adding that having gone through the disease or the vaccination ensures immunity for at least four to five months.
“The reference scenario is that we will have a new surge of Covid-19 starting in October; but we may also be surprised,” Magiorkinis says.
A new wave will likely come when nightly temperatures consistently drop below 18 degrees Celsius.
In 2020, the first year of the pandemic, a surge started in late October from Thessaloniki. Another surge, in October 2021, coincided with the arrival of the highly contagious, and deadly, Delta variation of Covid. In both cases, the superspreaders were the 18-39 age group, although the elderly and those with existing serious illnesses bore the brunt of hospitalizations and fatalities.
In more detail, the 8,413 new cases detected per Regional Unit:
