Reduction of self tests in schools -from two to one per week- announced the Minister of Health Thanos Plevris.
“What the experts are meeting in the Commission for is to keep the tests in schools, but we can go from two to one self test a week,” he told Ant1.
The committee of experts is meeting today at 2 noon. On the agenda is the issue of reducing self-tests in schools from 2 to 1, However, according to information, it is not ruled out that a decision will not be taken today and have any changes from April.
As Mr. Plevris said, “what the World Health Organization points out is that testing must remain” and Greece is one of the countries that are very high, “we have just decided to make it more targeted”.
“The guidelines that are being given are that when there is a hypersensitivity of the virus, the tests should be more targeted and we should focus on monitoring whether we have pressure on the National Health System,” he added.
In terms of rise in cases He noted that despite the increase, there is no burden on the NSS.
“Indeed, there is an increase in cases and it is estimated that it is based on two factors. “Firstly, that the ‘Omicron’ sub-mutation, which is more contagious, is slowly beginning to prevail, and secondly, that now, as you know, almost all the measures related to entertainment have been lifted,” he said. However, he estimated that this rise seems to have begun to make its “plateau”. He further pointed out that “despite the increase in cases so far, there is no particular burden on hospitalizations and the index of intubated patients is constantly decreasing.”
Regarding the intensive care units and the deaths, he said that “the image that 16,000 patients needed ICUs and did not have access, is false”. “Although we currently have 300 empty ICU-Covid beds, yesterday 2/3 of the patients who died were out of the Intensive Care Unit because according to medical criteria, neither intubation nor their admission to the ICU was recommended,” he said. “Not everyone dies in an Intensive Care bed. “Not because there is no access, but because not all patients meet the conditions, either to be intubated or to enter the ICU,” he added.
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