Coronaviridae

The government of Cyprus said Wednesday it will require all passengers arriving from China to produce evidence of a negative coronavirus test as the Asian country grapples with a nationwide Covid-19 outbreak.

The State Secretary of the Ministry of Health, MD Mirsad erlek, says that there is no confirmation yet, but in his belief, a new strain of the Coronavirus has arrived in Serbia as well, given the rising number of infected people, and that its detection is expected soon.

The new confirmed cases of coronavirus in Bulgaria for the last 24 hours are 193, according to the data of the Unified Information Portal.

4,308 tests were carried out, which means that the proportion of positive results is 4.48 percent.

3 patients with confirmed coronavirus infection have died.

There is no possibility of closing schools due to the outbreak of coronavirus cases and viruses, as clarified by the Minister of Education, Niki Kerameos.

Regarding the possibility of a return of the mandatory mask, the minister ruled it out.

At the same time, she again referred to the issue of teacher hirings.

An end to the debate about school shut downs and masks

The new confirmed cases of coronavirus in Bulgaria for the last 24 hours are 230, according to the data of the Unified Information Portal.

5,553 tests were performed, which means that the share of positive results is 4.1 percent.

Five patients with confirmed coronavirus infection have died.

The new confirmed coronavirus cases in Bulgaria for the last 24 hours are 45, according to the data of the Unified Information Portal.

743 tests were done, which means that the share of positive results is 6 percent.

No patients with confirmed coronavirus infection have died.

The most contagious sub-variant of SARS-CoV-2 that has emerged to date, XBB.1.5, and the new severe wave of coronavirus in China are worrying scientists, said Nikos Tzanakis, Professor of Pulmonology in the School of Medicine at University of Crete.

In China, the death of more and more famous people is being announced, prompting residents to question the previous data on mortality from COVID-19, the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, writes the BBC.

253 are the new cases of coronavirus in Bulgaria, confirmed with 4,305 tests done. 5.87 per 100 of the tested samples are positive, according to the data in the Unified Information Portal.

The new confirmed cases of coronavirus in Bulgaria for the last 24 hours are 180, according to the data of the Unified Information Portal.

1284 tests were done, which means that the share of positive results is 14 percent.

No patients with confirmed coronavirus infection have died.