Public health authorities in Greece on Tuesday confirmed 100,421 new Covid-19 infections in the country for the first week of August 2022, as statistics are now announced on a weekly basis.
This is equivalent to 9,626 infections per one million people during the specific week (weekly change: -19 percent), with 21 percent of the weekly new infections being reinfections.
All confirmed cases since the pandemic began total 4,577,675 in Greece.
Additionally, another 314 deaths from Covid-19 were reported in the same week, or 30 fatalities per one million people (weekly change: -18 percent), bringing the total number of victims since the pandemic began to 31,722.
Of the victims, 95.9 percent had an underlying condition and/or were aged 70 or above.
A total of 120 Covid-19 patients were intubated on Aug. 7. The median age for this group is 70 years and 95.0 percent suffer from an underlying condition and/or is aged 70 or over.
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