Chinanews.com, March 17. According to the Greek “China-Greece Times” report, on the evening of March 16, local time, the National Public Health Organization of Greece announced that in the past 24 hours, Greece added 23,748 new confirmed cases of new crown disease, and the cumulative number of confirmed cases was The number of cases increased to 2,708,610; 44 new deaths were added, bringing the total number of deaths to 26,730.
For the recent rapid increase in cases, Greek medical experts believe that this has a lot to do with the Omicron variant ba.2. However, experts also believe that 80% of patients currently have mild or almost no symptoms, which is due to the high penetration rate of vaccines.
The positive thing is that, despite the recent high number of new cases and the general increase in epidemiological indicators in Europe, the number of critically ill patients in Greece has not increased significantly. (Wu Qin)
Source: China News Network