Experts fear severe spike in Covid cases

With winter approaching there is mounting concern among health experts that the current second wave of the coronavirus pandemic could transform into a veritable tsunami.

This heightened concern stems not just from the spike in cases but also the upward trend in intubated patients and deaths, as well as the surge in demand for ICU beds.

Indicatively, in Attica alone, the number of cases exceeded 1,000 last week.

"We have probably exceeded 100,000 cases in our country, of which at least 10,000-15,000 are active," Yannis Tountas, professor of social and preventive medicine at Athens University, stressed to Kathimerini.

Newly diagnosed cases rose from 337 in May to 5,994 in August. The corresponding numbers of intubated patients were nine and 35 respectively, while the figures for deaths were 35 and 60.

"The evolution of epidemiological data clearly...