Covid-19 Greece: 40.100 infections in first week of Sept.; 180 deaths

Public health authorities in Greece on Tuesday confirmed 40.100 new Covid-19 infections in the country for the last three days of August and until Sept. 4.

This is equivalent to 4,848 infections per one million people during the specific week (weekly change: -22 percent), with 23 percent of the weekly new infections being reinfections.

All confirmed cases since the pandemic began now total 4,804,982 in Greece.

Additionally, another 180 deaths from Covid-19 were reported in the same week, or 19 fatalities per one million people (weekly change: -19 percent), bringing the total number of victims since the pandemic began to 32,757.

A total of 101 Covid-19 patients were intubated on Sept. 4. The median age for this group is 69 years and 96.0 percent suffer from an underlying condition and/or is aged 70 or over.