The number of daily cases but especially the number of hospitalisations which are unfortunately increasing on a daily basis, will be the two aspects that the Minister of Health and his colleagues and the members of the Scientific Advisory Committee will analyse on Tuesday, during their regular meeting, in order to decide on the next steps to be taken.
A big gamble for the government remains the avoidance of a horizontal lockdown, while in case of a deterioration of the situation, a tightening of existing measures should be taken for granted. In any case, any recommendations of the experts will be submitted to the Council of Ministers for approval on Wednesday.
With Cyprus facing a rapidly deteriorating epidemiological picture due to a rapidly deteriorating epidemiological picture due to a highly contagious Omicron mutation and with a number of measures in place, the possibility of restricting travel for some time on the one hand and, on the other, reducing the days of self-limitation for the general population, as has already been decided for health professionals, is expected to be put on the table on Tuesday by some scientists.
However, although the situation in the state hospitals remains manageable as communicated by the OCYPY, the daily increase in the number of hospitalizations is worrying experts, and it is taken for granted that the high number of positive cases on a daily basis will lead to more hospitalizations.
In particular, in one 48-hour period hospitalised patients with coronavirus increased by 21. According to the latest announcement by the Ministry of Health, 251 patients of COVID-19 - instead of 244 on Saturday and 230 on Friday - were being treated in the hospitals of the Ministry of Health until yesterday, of which 91 were in serious condition or in NSAIDs. Of the 91 patients in serious condition, 29 are intubated, 3 are in an Intensive Care Unit off a ventilator and 59 are in an Intensive Care Unit.
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