A total of 103 people with Covid-19 passed away in Greece on Friday alone, compared to the 81 people who died with the virus in the country on Thursday.
Greece recorded a total of 5,087 cases of Covid-19 on Friday, 436 fewer than the 5,523 recorded on Thursday.
The record for the highest number of coronavirus cases recorded in one day in Greece was broken on November 9, when 8,623 cases of Covid-19 were diagnosed.
In the past day, a total of 471,223 coronavirus tests have been administered, including both PCR and rapid tests, bringing the positivity rate in Greece to 1.07%.
Just 12 of Friday’s cases were identified during routine Covid-19 testing of tourists at the country’s borders.
Currently, there are 702 patients with the coronavirus on ventilators in Greece, six fewer than the 708 in the country on Thursday.
Greek antivaxxers handcuff school headmaster
Five Greek anti-vaxxers were arrested after they stormed a high school in the town of Aeginio in northern Greece and put handcuffs on the headmaster, accusing him of enforcing what they declared were “unconstitutional” measures against Covid.
The unprecedented incident carried out by members of the self-proclaimed group “Guardians of the Constitution” was quickly condemned by the Minister of Citizen Protection Takis Theodorikakos, who said “Such behaviors are provocative and unacceptable and the Police should not allow their recurrence.”
The group has created several pages on Facebook to circulate anti-vaxxer content and videos with nationalistic rhetoric.
According to reports in local media, up to a dozen members of the group confronted the headmaster at 8.00 AM on Friday morning. They handcuffed him, forcibly put him in one of their cars and brought him to the local police station. There, they asked police officers to arrest him for “violating the Greek constitution.”
Instead, the police arrested the anti-vaxxers and freed the headmaster.
According to the same reports, the group, which is mainly active in northern Greece, had recently threatened the headmaster and teaching staff who reported their harassment to the police.
1,604 Covid cases in Attica, 831 in Thessaloniki
Of the 5,087 new coronavirus cases recorded in Greece in the past 24 hours, 1,604 were located in Attica, home to the Greek capital city of Athens.
A total of 464 cases of Covid-19 were identified in central Athens on Friday.
In Thessaloniki, the second-largest city in Greece, 831 cases of the virus were identified today.
Over 900,000 cases of the covid-19 recorded in Greece
Since the beginning of the pandemic, a total of 994,901 cases of Covid-19 have been recorded in the country, including all those who have recovered from the virus.
Of the 702 patients intubated currently, 79.9% are over the age of 70 or suffer from preexisting conditions. Their average age is 64.
The majority of those who are on ventilators in Greece, or 80.63%, are unvaccinated or partially vaccinated against the coronavirus.
Additionally, a total of 3,600 patients have been discharged from ICUs around the country since the beginning of the pandemic.
The 103 new deaths recorded on Friday bring the total number of coronavirus-related fatalities in the country to 19,085.
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