Majorkinis: We expect a dramatic increase in cases – Why do not we take new measures

The reasons why he estimates that Greece does not need additional measures at the moment to stop the pandemic, explained the Gikas Majorkinis Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and member of the Committee of Experts, speaking to the main news bulletin of SKAI and Nikos Stravelakis.

“(New measures) are not ruled out, we are just far from this possibility at the moment”, stressed Mr. Majorkinis, saying that there is still time because in Greece much more measures are in force than in other countries.

He cited the United Kingdom as an example, where according to the assistant professor “he does not have even one tenth of the measures we have at the moment” but also the Netherlands where the use of a vaccination certificate was not applied in almost all social activities as in Greece .

He also stated that our country is “much ahead” of most countries in the vaccination with the third booster dose and therefore estimates that “we still have time in this phase.”

We expect a dramatic increase in the number of cases

The professor said that scientists expect a dramatic increase in the number of cases of Omicron versus Delta, a development which he identified after the holidays.

“I do not think it will happen during the holidays but it is a virus that is extremely difficult to predict,” he said.

When asked when he would suggest additional measures, he replied that the answer does not depend on the number of cases but on the pressure exerted on the health system.

He explained that it is extremely difficult at the moment to calculate how many cases of the Omicron mutation are in Greece, however after they exceed 25 then in the community there may be 3 to 4 times more.

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