Microbiology Prof. – A series of measures may be needed

The professor of Microbiology of Public Health at the University of West Attica and member of the infectious disease committee Alkiviadis Vatopoulos when asked about the possibility of a new lockdown said that we may need a series of measures, something, however, which is ruled out by the Prime Minister.

“Where we are heading depends on our behavior. A series of measures may be needed in general. It depends on how things go. If the coronavirus continues to be uncontrollable, more stringent measures will, logically, be taken. “Everyone should be aware of the situation and protect themselves,” he said characteristically.

As he noted speaking to SKAI television, “I did not expect to have such an exponential increase, the deaths are still higher than in Western Europe. We have fewer deaths than last year, nevertheless it is a large number, and the exhausted NHS is being pressured.”

“Now we all need to mobilize and realize that we have a disease from which we have not gotten rid of, and to mobilize in every direction to convince the unvaccinated to be vaccinated, although it takes 1.5 months for this to work, and to observe individual protection measures. ” He also clarified that MPs and politicians from all parties must reach out to convince citizens and trade unionists must convince workers, while the church has already started to move in this direction.

“We have a large number of cases, we can not compare it with last year because we have many more tests, and the vulnerable are about half of the population, vaccinated patients, etc.,” he said.

The virus, Mr. Vatopoulos explained, is extremely successful epidemiologically, because it causes a big problem in a small percentage of people, so it spreads easily and creates the impression that it is a simple flu, it is insidious, whenever people do not take it very seriously. It is not a simple flu. It’s a simple flu in so many people it needs to be easily transmitted and create this false image and insidiously kills people.

As Mr. Vatopoulos pointed out, the epidemic is mainly located in school ages, where we have proportionally more cases. “Now if the school is to blame and we have an in-school dispersion… The older pupils need to be vaccinated,” he pointed out.