Biology

It is being tested whether the Indian version of the coronavirus can avoid immunity against COVID-19 after illness and vaccination, commented the epidemiologist Petar Markov in "This Saturday" on BTV.

He added that this species has a mutation that is known to overcome the immune system, but it does not completely erase our immunity after vaccination and illness.

As of today, the tourist season in Greece has officially kicked off Checkpoints Kulata - Promahon and Makaza - Nymfaia are open entry of tourists. At the Kulata border checkpoint the traffic is not busy. Cars, mostly with Serbian registration, are scarce.

As many as 835 new cases of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 in Romania were recorded in the last 24 hours following 34,000 tests nationwide, the Strategic Communication Group (GCS), the official novel coronavirus communication task force, reported on Friday. These are cases of patients that have not previously tested positive.

As many as 953 new cases of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 in Romania were recorded in the last 24 hours following 33,222 tests nationwide, the Strategic Communication Group (GCS), the official novel coronavirus communication task force, reported on Thursday. These are cases of patients that have not previously tested positive.

A number of 930 new cases of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 have been registered in the last 24 hours in Romania, following 34,543 tests, the Strategic Communication Group (GCS) informed on Wednesday. These are cases that have not previously had a positive test result, says GCS.

Ljubljana – PCR tests done in Serbia and Turkey will be recognised as a way to avoid quarantine on arrival in Slovenia from Wednesday under an amended decree that the government adopted on Monday.

The blue shark was feeding on a shoal of fish

India's devastating Covid surge accelerated further on May 1 with more than 400,000 new cases recorded in 24 hours, as it opened its faltering vaccination programme to all adults.

Indian authorities lowered their guard in the early part of the year after infections fell, lifting restrictions on most activity and allowing mass religious and political gatherings to take place.

The Turkish Agriculture and Forestry Ministry has been storing the seeds of all kinds of plants grown across the country in some 32 gene banks in a bid to conserve the rich flora of Turkey from going extinct, the head of the project said on April 30.

Marine fossils discovered in eastern Turkey indicate the region was underwater millions of years ago, according to experts.

The residents of Elazığ's Akçatepe village, who took their animals to graze on a hill at an average altitude of 1,100 meters (3,600 feet) above sea level, noticed that there were mussel-and snail-like remains on the surrounding cliffs.