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Three more coronavirus patients have died since the last government briefing Saturday afternoon, raising total fatalities to 96.
According to sources, the three were men, two treateed at an Athens hospital and the third in Thessaloniki.
As of Saturday afternoon, the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Greece was 2,081. Updated figures will be announced, as usual, at 6 p.m. local, with a statement, not a press briefing.
Greece continues to manage to curb the coronavirus outbreak with a total of 105 deaths since the start of the pandemic and 2,205 cases in total, according to government figures released on Thursday.
A report by a Paris-based think tank said Turkey’s neighbor is the most successful among 10 major European countries in terms of “flattening the curve” of infections, seen as key to taming the virus.
The Bridge report said Greece’s decision to impose early strict and restrictive measures succeeded in slowing the virus’ spread.
The Greek Health Ministry on Friday announced 17 new cases of coronavirus, bringing the total to 2,224.
Another three patients died in the hospital, pushing the death toll up to 108.
In southern Greece, 148 asylum seekers have tested positive for COVID-19 at a hotel converted into a quarantine center for migrants. Most of those infected are single parents from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Cameroon. This follows two other coronavirus outbreaks at crowded migrant camps near Athens.
...snip[By Wednesday evening, Greece had reported 2,408 cases of COVID-19 and 121 deaths.