They make up 53,436 coronavirus cases recorded within a week October 24 – October 30, 2022according to National Public Health Organization (EODY). In the same week, 164 deaths were reported, with 85 intubated individuals, and 𝑅𝑡 for the area based on cases is estimated at 0.99.

a week ago (October 17 – October 23, 2022) There were 52,966 cases and 138 deaths, with 𝑅𝑡 for territory based on cases estimated at 0.96 and intubated at 82.

Percussion

In particular, during the reporting week, 53,436 cases of COVID-19 were reported (5,122 per million population: 1% weekly change), of which reinfections account for 23% of infections. The total number of infected since the beginning of the pandemic is 5,188,890, of which 52.1% are women. 𝑅𝑡 for area based on cases estimated at 0.99 (95% CI: 0.82 – 1.07)

Intubated

The total number of hospital admissions in the region during the reporting week was 1324 patients (7-month period: 189, 3% weekly change), and the total number of discharged patients was 1014 patients (7-month period: 145, – 7% weekly change). The number of intubated patients at the end of the reporting week is 85 (61.2% men) with a mean age of 73 years and 96.5% with underlying disease and/or age 70 years and older.

Losses

During the reporting week, there were 164 COVID-19 patient deaths (16 per million population: 12% weekly change), of which 11 (7%) died at least 29 days after laboratory confirmation of COVID-19 infection. , and a total of 33,750 deaths have been recorded since the beginning of the epidemic, with 96.1% of them having an underlying disease and/or being 70 years of age or older.

positive

In the control week, the positivity rate was 8.45% for a total of 632,238 lab tests (RT-PCR/Rapid-Ag) with a seven-day average of 90,320 samples (-9% weekly change).

Geographic distribution

Viral Load – Wastewater

During the week of October 24–30, 2022, compared to the week of October 17–23, 2022, there were trends of increasing average weekly SARS-CoV-2 viral load in municipal wastewater in eight of the twelve (8/12) regions tested by the National Wastewater Epidemiology Network (EDEL) EODY and declining trends in four regions (4/12) EDL.

An upward trend in the average weekly urban wastewater load was observed in Patras (+176%), Volos (+113%), Alexandroupolis (+102%), Ioannina (+100%), Xanthi (+46%), Larissa (+ 41%) and Corfu (+38%), while growth was marginal in Thessaloniki (+28%). Downtrends were observed in Agios Nikolaos (-57%), Heraklion (-52%), Attica (-36%) and Chania (-36%).

Mutations

All new sub-variants can now also be found in Greece, the latest being XBB. In particular, based on the results of the analysis of the National Network for Genomic Surveillance of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which operates under the coordination of EODY, from 338 randomly selected or targeted samples belonging to the period from September 28 to October 25, the Omicron strain (B. 1.1.529).

Of these 338 samples, 28 (8.3%) were identified as BA.2, 8 (2.4%) as BA.4, and 302 (89.3%) as BA.5. Of the BA.2 strains, 17 (60.7%) were identified as subvariant BA.2.75 (Centaur) and 8 (28.6%) as XBB, and from strains BA.5 12 (4.0%) as subvariant BQ. 1 and 1 (0.3%) as BQ.1.1.