The number of Covid-related deaths rose sharply in the week September 23-October 1, reaching 53 from 35 the week before, the National Organization for Public Health (EODY) announced in its weekly coronavirus bulletin on Thursday.
A patient died from influenza (flu) also this specific week.
Infections rising trend continues in Greece and the rate showed a small rise t0 26,561 from 25,408 the previous week
The number of Covid-19 patients admitted to hospital showed a small drop compared to last week. The drop is 868 from 869 the previous week. However, a 19% rise compared to the median new weekly additions during the last 4 weeks.
New intubations presented a drop from last week, but a rise compared to the median new intubations for the last 4 weeks. The number of patients infected by Covid-19 who are intubated totals 36.
53 Covid-patients have died with a median age of 82 years (range: 66-102).
In the past few weeks, all all sequenced strains of the coronavirus belong to the subvariant BA.2 of Omicron. The most common subvariant of BA.2 was XBB.1.5. (42%), followed by EG.5 (25%) and XBB.1.16 (24%). Greece has recorded a total of 19 positive samples of subvariant BA.2.86, with samples taken from September 5 to 19.
In addition, viral load in city sewage samples showed a higher circulation rise of SARS-CoV-2 in 4 of the 8 regions sampled.
An epidemiologist from the health Ministry committee told media on Thursday that spread of Covid-19 has not reached alarming levels that would call for “emergency measures.”
In terms of the influenza virus, the sentinel positive rate in the community remains below 10%. No new laboratory-confirmed flu case with an ICU hospitalization has been recorded in the past week, while a new death by lab-confirmed flu was recorded.
Overall, 71 people have been hospitalized with flu in ICUs and 28 deaths recorded for the season.
PS I’m kind of surrounded with people infected with coronavirus and got in contact with 3 of them. Tested Negative.