“All Europe is facing a new, big, second wave of coronavirus. In many countries, there is a dramatic increase in cases, respiratory support, and deaths. Protection measures are increasing and in some cases, such as in Ireland, they are on the verge of a [full] lockdown,”, government spokesperson Stelios Petsas said on Thursday, ANA reports.
He underlined that “our country, thanks to the observance of the measures by the vast majority of citizens, still remains in a better epidemiological state than many other countries.”
He pointed out, nevertheless, that “in recent days there has been, especially in certain areas, a worrying increase in cases. There is also a significant drop in the average age of people infected with the coronavirus. Nationwide, the average age of patients is 37 years, while in Thessaloniki it is only 28. This fact confirms that the main cause of the increase in cases is complacency and confusion. We see a picture of a repetition of the July-August period, where younger age groups seem to have returned to the normality before the coronavirus,” Petsas said.
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