Coronavirus disease

Turkey's Health Ministry has urged the utmost vigilance in all provinces amid a spike in COVID-19 variant-related infections, announcing a raft of measures to combat the spread of the disease.

A number of 5,236 new cases of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 have been registered in the last 24 hours, informs, on Thursday, the Strategic Communication Group (GCS). These are cases that have not previously tested positive, says the quoted source. As of Thursday, 845,352 cases of people infected with the new coronavirus have been confirmed in Romania. Of these, 774,277 were declared cured.

When the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a pandemic one year ago Thursday, it did so only after weeks of resisting the term and maintaining that the highly infectious virus could still be stopped.

Virus variants of different origins have infected nearly 42,000 people in dozens of provinces in Turkey, the country's health minister has said, warning that the new strains are spreading fast at a time when the country moved to a controlled normalization phase.

In a press briefing organized by the think tank Chatham House in London, Peter Daszak estimated that collective scientific research might be able to pin down how animals carrying COVID-19 infected the first people in Wuhan identified last December.

A number of 4,564 new cases of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 have been registered in the last 24 hours, informs, on Wednesday, the Strategic Communication Group (GCS). These are cases that have not previously tested positive, says the quoted source. One hundred people - 52 men and 48 women - infected with SARS-CoV-2 have died in the last 24 hours, says GCS.

"Within a month and a half, the number of hospitalized can reach 9,000. The record so far was just 7,200 registered on December 13 last year. This happened two weeks after the decision on lockdown was taken. There will also be 16,000 deaths in April, the mathematical models show.

As many as 4,989 new cases of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 in Romania were recorded in the last 24 hours following over 35,000 tests nationwide, the Strategic Communication Group (GCS), the official novel coronavirus communication task force, reported on Tuesday. These are cases of patients that have not previously tested positive.

A huge jump in the new cases of coronavirus has been registered in the past 24 hours in Bulgaria - 2,995. Their number is a record since the beginning of this year and is the highest since December 11. This is shown by the data on the Unified Information Portal.

2,280 new cases of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 have been recorded in the past 24 hours, the Strategic Communication Group reports on Monday. These are cases that have not previously had a positive test, the source says. 63 people - 31 men and 32 women - infected with SARS-CoV-2 died within the past 24 hours, according to data submitted by GCS.