Her last wave recedes COVID-19 in our country. Everything last week main indicators of the epidemicfrom new diagnoses, contagiousness index to patient mortality with illness were clearly reduced compared to the last week of July. In particular, for the week from August 1 to August 7, 100,421 outbreaks (9626 people per million population), the number decreased by 19% compared to the previous week. 21% of these cases were associated with reinfection. OUR EODI announced 314 COVID-19 patient deaths, up from 355 reported in the last week of July. In total, since the beginning of the pandemic, 31,722 coronavirus-related deaths have been recorded in our country. Also for the first time in this wave of the epidemic, the number of intubated patients with COVID-19 decreased: 120 on Sunday, August 7, compared with 138 on Sunday, July 31. Last week, 2,343 patients with coronavirus were admitted to hospitals in the region, which is about 200 fewer than a week earlier (2,558 hospitalizations).

According to EODY, a decrease in the number of diagnoses is recorded in almost all regional divisions of the country. Net growth was recorded only in Kea (46%), Kalymnos (37%), Lesvos (28%), Messinia (16%), Chios and Lemnos (14%).

However, last week there was a slight increase in SARS-CoV-2 viral load in urban wastewater from Attica, while the National Wastewater Epidemiology Network for Coronavirus measured viral load more than doubled in Patras (+224). %).