Costa: 'Over 105 million green passes downloaded'

"

: this means that citizens have become aware of the importance of this tool as well in continuing this path".

stressed this to Rainews24

noting how "the silent majority of our country prevailed which, while politics was discussing the usefulness of the green pass, in the meantime joined it".  

Meanwhile, the cases of Covid-19 among healthcare workers

are

: this week is 371 compared to 306 the previous week (3.6% of the total cases in the population), notes

, which completes the weekly monitoring. In total, there are 144,812 total Covid cases registered among health professionals, of which 1,444 in the last 30 days.

Analyzing the trend of cases diagnosed among health professionals, we read in the extended Report, "at the beginning of July there was a slight increase in correspondence with the increase in the number of cases in the remaining population. Starting from the second half of August, the number of cases diagnosed in the population is in sharp decline, while the number of cases notified weekly among health workers is increasing (371 vs 306 in the previous week) and is now equal to 3.6% of the total cases in the population ". 

The efficacy of the anti-Covid vaccines "remains high" compared to the Alpha and Delta variants of the SarsCoV2 virus, although there is a slight decrease in efficacy compared to the Delta

, according to the report.

"In general, although a decrease in efficacy is observed in the Delta epidemic phase - it is emphasized - the preventive efficacy against hospitalizations (92% in the Delta phase versus 95% in the Alpha phase), intensive care (95% Delta phase vs 97% Alpha phase) and deaths (91% Delta vs 97% phase) remains high ".