Update – 28/01/2022

As of the latest update by the Greek authorities, the total number of confirmed Covid-19 diagnosed cases in Greece 1,867,935. 112 new deaths were reported raising the total number to 23,083. The number of patients treated in intensive care units is currently 633. 19,712 new cases were announced yesterday in Greece. 6,816 of the new cases were found in the Attica region and 1,916 new cases in the Thessaloniki region.

Restrictive measures announced over the holiday period for public health reasons will be partially relaxed, Health Minister Thanos Plevris announced Thursday afternoon.

Thus, from early Monday, January 31, music will once again be in bars, cafes and restaurants and there will no longer be a mandatory midnight closing time or these businesses.

On the other hand, still only sitting customers are allowed, to avoid crowding.

The limit of 10% filled seats in indoor and outdoor sports arenas, up to a maximum of 1,000 spectators will still be enforced but a relaxation will be reconsidered the following week, Plevris said.

The minister said he accepted the recommendations of the committee of experts advising the government on the pandemic, on the basis of fewer new cases of the coronavirus, a “balance” in the number ofho hospitalizations and exits from hospitals, although the National Health Sysytem remains “burdened” and the new facts about the Omicron variant of the disease. “The required hospitalization and the severity of symptoms are smaller than with the Delta mutation,” Plevris said.

The minister also decided to extend the validity of vaccination certificates by a week, to February 7, to allow residents who had their booster appointments canceled because of the snowstorm to reschedule them. This concerns those that had completed their original one or two vaccination plans seven months or more before February 7.

In more detail, the 19,712 new cases detected per Regional Unit:

• Attica 6,816
  • Eastern Attica 979
  • Northern Sector of Athens  736
  • West Attica 431
  • Western Sector of Athens 913
  • Central Sector of Athens 1,630
  • Southern Sector of Athens 807
  • Piraeus 1,199
  • Islands 121
• Thessaloniki 1,916
• Etoloakarnania 297
• Andros 4
• Argolida 175
• Arcadia 103
• Arta 138
• Achaia 736
• Boeotia 171
• Grevena 34
• Drama 110
• Evros 350
• Evia 436
• Evritania 23
• Zakynthos 95
• Ilia 192
• Imathia 189
• Heraklion 754
• Thassos 20
• Thesprotia 53
• Thira 52
• Ithaca 5
• Ikaria 7
• Ioannina 240
• Kavala 220
• Kalymnos 66
• Karditsa 123
• Karpathos 8
• Kastoria 123
• Kea-Kythnos 15
• Corfu 229
• Kefalonia 48
• Kilkis 78
• Kozani 155
• Corinth 349
• Kos 72
• Laconia 84
• Larissa 479
• Lasithi 162
• Lesvos 212
• Lefkada 49
• Lemnos 56
• Magnesia 222
• Messinia 259
• Milos 4
• Mykonos 71
• Naxos 69
• Blonde 252
• Paros 21
• Pella 144
• Pieria 223
• Preveza 85
• Rethymno 219
• Rodopi 259
• Rhodes 437
• Samos 68
• Serres 158
• Sporades 26
• Syros 21
• Tinos 18
• Trikala 179
• Fthiotida 160
• Florina 38
• Fokida 37
• Chalkidiki 255
• Chania 562
• Chios 96
• Under investigation 401

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