Coronavirus: No case of Omicron in Greece in 40,000 samples – Hospitals are suffocating

The Botswana Omicron mutation has also sounded the alarm in Greece, which has closed its borders to 9 South African countries.

From this morning, travelers from these countries are allowed to enter only with permission from the local embassies and only for absolutely necessary travel. Travelers should take a molecular test 72 hours before the flight and a rapid test on arrival. Upon entering Greece, they will be quarantined for 10 days, from which they will come out with a negative molecular test.

“With Delta, we were late in reacting to the countries closing their borders, etc., but there is concern that we do not have much data that this mutation is more contagious. Even if it is more contagious, what does that translate into? “In a more serious disease, in the same disease as Delta, the disease it causes can be even milder…”, said earlier to SKAI the professor of Pharmacology, Evgallos Manolopoulos.

So far in Greece 40,000 old samples have been re-tested and all were negative for the Omicron mutation.

“To show composure, to gather all the elements. The concern here is to see if vaccines are effective against this mutation. Of course we have the readiness from the pharmaceutical companies from what they told us that within 90 days they will be able to prepare, if necessary, a vaccine. “The soil where the mutations develop is the unvaccinated”, the director of the pulmonology clinic of Evangelismos, George Boulbasakos, told Mega earlier.

As the Honorary Consul of Greece in Botswana explained, it all started when on November 7, four Asian diplomats arrived in the African country – all vaccinated – who, due to the fast control process, were found positive on the Omicron mutation on November 11.

Unbearable pressure in hospitals

In Greece, the pressure from the pandemic in the hospitals is now unbearable with the doctors asking for harsh measures here and now.

“The pandemic cannot be controlled, the vigils are war vigils. 10 days for the schools to close the stadiums without spectators, the masks to be everywhere, the lock down of the vaccinators, to be closed in their homes, so that we can protect them. He wants drastic measures “, pointed out in the morning to SKAI the director of the BTH ICU of Papanikolaou hospital, Nikos Kapravelos.

Otherwise the victims will multiply exponentially.

“For the next two weeks, maybe three, we will continue with this number of dead. “I hope we do not see more than 100 times many times. By Christmas, the death toll from coronavirus in our country may reach or even exceed 20,000”, stressed Mr. Tzanakis.

The hospitals of Thessaloniki live on terror duty.

Another difficult night the doctors spent in “Papageorgiou” of Thessaloniki with the doctors reaching their limits. Indicatively, 57 admissions were made, among them 2 children of 1 year and 6 years.

“All the ICUs are full, 14 intubated in MAF and a few more in simple beds. “In the intensive care units they are not vaccinated, it is a question whether they are 1 or 2 vaccinated”, noted the doctor of “Papageorgiou”, Christos Papastergiou.

However, the hospitals of Attica are also facing a problem.

“We are having a hard time in the hospital of Nice, typically to tell you that for the last patient we admitted a while ago we were looking all over the floor to find a place where oxygen works well to give the high flows it needs, that is, this “At the moment, due to the quantity and the severity of the incidents, we have started to have a problem with oxygen as well”, said to OPEN the physician of the hospital of Nikaia, Mary Agrogianni.

Experts will meet next week to evaluate the epidemiological data and make suggestions to the government.

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