Crete: 6 coronavirus infections in nursing home; hospitals under pressure
Five elderly and one member of the staff at a private nursing home in Lasithi, eastern Crete. All cases were found to have been infected with the Delta strain of the coronavirus. ....
... The island of Crete faces a constant increase of infections with the Civil Protection to have imposed a so-called “mini lockdown” to two our of four in total regional units, that is in Heraklio and Chania.
According to local media cretapost, there are currently 183 people hospitalized for Covid-19 across the island. Of them, 158 patients are in Covid-19 clinics, 25 in Intensive Care Units and 18 of them intubated.
A local high-ranking health official told cretapost that hospitals on the island no longer accept Covid-patients from other islands and did not rule out “at some moment to have to trasnfer patients to ICUs outside Crete.”
The situation on the island is “critical,” and there have been 4,000 infections since the beginning of August, the local media reported....