The impression created is that the Omicron coronary mutation is an extremely penetrating strain, said Professor Gikas Majorkinis in the briefing on the evolution of the coronary pandemic in Greece in today’s briefing of the Ministry of Health.
The Omicron mutation, which occurred in South Africa, appears to be contributing to the spread of a new epidemic wave, he said.
The disease epidemic in South Africa has evolved into three distinct waves, he explained.
The first wave concerned the original pandemic strains in the summer of 2020.
Then a second wave at the end of 2020 and in the winter of 2021 with the beta strain and more recently in the summer of 2021 the delta strain dominated.
The epidemic then went into recession from late September until about 2 weeks ago.
The epidemic in recent weeks shows characteristics of exponential growth there and only in the last week we saw a 400% increase in diagnoses.
Yesterday it is characteristic that more than 8 thousand diagnoses were recorded, he stressed and added that the number of hospitalizations and deaths also increased (50% more dead).
In each case, they have seized it, despite obstacles we can scarcely imagine. “
Regarding morbidity, however, no significant difference is observed.
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