Greece: 51,824 coronavirus infections in week of Dec. 5-11, 130 deaths

Greece confirmed 51,824 new SARS-CoV-2 cases in the week of December 5-11, the National Public Health Organization (EODY) said in its weekly statistics report on Tuesday.

This is equivalent to 4,968 coronavirus cases per 1 mln people (weekly change: 18%), with 30% of the new weekly infections being reinfections.

All confirmed infections since the pandemic began are 5,500,737.

A total of 1,437 Covid-19 patients were admitted to hospital during the week of December 5-11, while the total number of Covid-19 patients discharged from hospitals for the same week was 1,062 (152 as weekly average, or 1% compared to previous week).

In addition, 88 hospital patients were on ventilators on December 11. Their median age is 76 years and 98.9% have an underlying condition and/or are aged 70 or more.

During the week of December 5-11 there were also 130 deaths from Covid-19, or 12 deaths per 1 mln people (weekly change: -17%), bringing the total of pandemic victims since the pandemic began to 34,614.

Of the people who died, 96.1% had an underlying condition and/or were aged 70 or more.

The median age of those who were infected was 39 years of age, and of those who died it was 80.