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Comparative Study
. 2020 Jun;34(3 Suppl):1695-1699.
doi: 10.21873/invivo.11963.

Lockdown During COVID-19: The Greek Success

Dimitrios Moris  1 , Dimitrios Schizas  2
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Comparative Study

Lockdown During COVID-19: The Greek Success

Dimitrios Moris et al. In Vivo. 2020 Jun.

Abstract

Background/aim: Coronavirus is an ongoing pandemic challenging health systems worldwide. The aim of this report was to evaluate the effectiveness of lockdown in different countries, highlighting the performance of Greek society and authorities.

Methods: We analyzed publicly available data from the "Worldometer". We evaluated the efficacy of lockdown at one month after implementation. Delta Days (DD) referred to the difference in the days of reaching 1 case/million people to the adoption of lockdown.

Results: Higher healthcare expenditure as % of the national GDP was not correlated with better 30-day mortality outcomes. DD index was significantly correlated to the incidence of COVID-19 per million people at 30 days (p-value=0.001). The correlation between DD and 30-day mortality was not statistically significant (p-value=0.087).

Conclusion: Early lockdown was proven to be the appropriate policy to limit the spread of COVID-19. Greece was a success story in preventing spread despite limited resources.

Keywords: COVID-19; Coronavirus; Greece; quarantine.

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Conflict of interest statement

The Authors have no conflicts of interest to declare in relation to this study.

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Figure 1. Illustration of the 30-day mortality per million people (pmp) and healthcare expenditure in millions as % of the national GDP.
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Figure 2. Delta days and 30-day mortality per million people per country.
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