Agreements with five private clinics a Thessaloniki, Larissa e Volos for 296 beds that will welcome patients affected by Covid but also by other pathologies, this is the solution announced by Greek Ministry of Health after the hospitals in these areas, where infections are particularly high, have reached their reception limits. In the country, 3,543 new cases have been registered, of which 661 in Thessaloniki, 246 to Larissa e 148 Volos, the latter two small cities.
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Low percentage of vaccinated
With a low percentage of vaccinated, these areas of the country have become the most problematic; Attica, the region of Athens where about half of the Hellenic population lives (around 11 million in all), recorded 599 new infections in the same 24 hours. In the northern region of Macedonia-Thrace, ICU seats are full at 100%; there are 910 patients affected by Covid. Even in Thessaly, intensive care units are no longer able to accommodate other patients. “The solution is to reduce the demand for beds by expanding the vaccination obligation – the director of the hospital’s intensive care department told Skai TV Papanikolaou of Thessaloniki – There is no other way, vaccines are needed ». But the government has made it known that it wants to consider other vaccination obligations “only if the epidemiological picture changes and only for categories for which it is constitutionally admissible”.
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