The focus of yesterday's meeting of epidemiologists with the Minister of Health was the positive cases without symptoms and the changes that will take place in the sampling test that will take place from Wednesday.
The way to the finish is the coronavirus vaccine, since there are no other measures to be taken, and at the moment we are in a marathon, said in a press conference after their new meeting with the Minister of Health the members of the Scientific Advisory Committee.
It was also reported that the sampling of the ten thousand will be done with a mobile unit in all the Provinces, without announcing the exact location and times of the sampling, in an effort to limit the attendance of people who are either symptomatic or close contact of other cases and to extract representative results, through a truly random sample.
The Professor of Molecular Virology, Dr. Leontios Kostrikis said that "We will try to take random samples and not to exclude people who came there because they were case contacts, so this will be corrected."
At the center of the discussion with the Minister of Health were also the asymptomatic people who are mainly young people and this exactly makes the situation difficult, that is why they call on the people to have self-control.
Dr. Zoe Dorothea Pana, a member of the Advisory Committee, made it clear that in the last fortnight we have 70,6% of domestic infections and 20,6% of infections, which were either detected at the gates or had a recent travel history.
Ms. Pana stated that "there are about 90 health protocols in number which must be observed horizontally and vertically. "Universal compliance with these measures is our ammunition, our weapons for now."
Regarding the airports, Mr. Kostrikis stressed that many measures have been taken to prevent the spread of the virus and that so far more than 27,000 sampling tests have been carried out on passengers at Paphos and Larnaca airports.
At the same time, Mr. Kostrikis stressed that "the general philosophy is that we do not enter a road race that will end in two, three weeks or a month. We are in a marathon and the finish will be when we have the vaccine. "Our goal is not lockdown, but that should be our philosophy."
It is noted, finally, that the weekly update on the coronavirus returns from the epidemiologists who, most likely, will hold every third meeting.
13 new cases of coronavirus were announced yesterday
13 new cases of coronavirus were announced by the Ministry of Health yesterday, with the number being in double digits for another day. These cases were identified from a total of 3,486 laboratory diagnoses.
According to the database, the total number of positive cases is 1,208.
Specifically, the cases concern 2 Romanian couples, permanent residents of Cyprus, who returned from Romania yesterday, it is noted that they are asymptomatic and took the test at the airport. 1 person is of Cypriot origin who arrived at the airport from Italy via Athens. Carry out the sampling check at the airport. This person should note that he had no symptoms. And another person who returned from Manchester last Wednesday and took the test at the airport. Another person without symptoms.
Four people were identified on a private initiative, namely, 1 person is of Cypriot origin who was examined privately due to symptoms and has no travel history. Another person who is a permanent resident of Cyprus, of Russian origin, had no symptoms nor a travel history. The third person identified by a private initiative is of Indonesian origin, a permanent resident of Cyprus, without a travel history. He took the test because they asked for it from the company that would start work and he does not have any symptoms either. The 3th person who took the test privately had symptoms and is a Cypriot.
Among the cases I found three cases from tracking.
One person was identified by the Microbiological Laboratories of the General Hospitals and the last case was referred by the Doctor's Staff due to symptoms. He has a recent travel history in Zimbabwe.
At the moment, at the General Hospital of Famagusta, four patients are still being treated in a ward in stable condition.
Source: Ant1