The transparency and reliability of official data regarding the coronavirus pandemic are of high significance during the coronavirus pandemic, said Health Minister Vassilis Kikilias at Wednesday’s live briefing on the latest facts and figures, ANA reports.
The briefing focused on the work of the National Public Health Organization (EODY), the country’s agency responsible for compiling and releasing official data on the pandemic’s course, including providing graphs on cases, assessing the threat, and “issuing safety directives and protocols for the pandemic’s management,” he noted.
Formerly the Center for Disease Control & Prevention (KEELPNO), EODY was re-established with its current name in October 2019, and is trusted by citizens for its work in analyzing and interpreting data on 52 infectious diseases and conditions, pointed out the minister.
So far into the 2020 pandemic, EODY has managed to secure funding from European support programs to set up its 500 Mobile Health Units (KOMY), which have carried out 17,630 actions in 71 regional units across the country. They have also performed 550,000 sample collections and some 2,200,000 PCR (molecular) and RAPID diagnostic tests.
Kikilias added that apart from being fed data from its mobile health units, EODY collects data from the country’s 7 regional health districts, from the 127 local health units, from another 160 health centers, and also from regular hospitals, private clinics, as well as from public and private microbiological laboratories. EODY then processes this information and delivers it to the government and international organizations.
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