Coronavirus disease

The new cases of Covid-19 infection in Bulgaria are 719. In the last day, 9,876 tests for coronavirus have been made, show the data from the Single Information Portal. Of all tests 7,3 percent are positive.

In the past 24 hours, 40 people died of coronavirus, 284 are in intensive care wards, out of a a total of 2,969 hospitalized, 1,068 people were cured.

Turkey has detected two cases of South African variant and one case of the Brazilian variant of COVID-19, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca has announced.

The number of cases related to the U.K variant of the coronavirus has increased to 196, Koca said following the Health Ministry's Science Board meeting on Feb. 3, warning that daily infections are on the rise again.

Researchers from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan call for urgent research into the long-term effects of COVID-19 infection on male fertility due to the abundant evidence of reduced sperm motility, fewer sperm and testicular damage, claiming the virus threatens to destroy humanity after the pandemic is over.

The government's chief scientific advisor on Covid-19, Sotiris Tsiodras, told a parliamentary committee on Wednesday that the new variants of the coronavirus will be the ones that prevail in the region of Attica.

Greek health authorities recorded 1,151 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, bringing the total number to 159,866.

Of these new cases, only eight were reported at the country's entry points.

The National Organization for Public Health (EODY) said 27 more patients died from Covid-19, raising the total number of fatalities to 5,878. Their median age was 79.

11.960 people were tested, 2.652.095 since the outbreak of the pandemic.
The number of patients on hospital treatment is 4.002, and there are now 153 people on respirators.
The total number of registered cases amounts to 400.837.
Since the outbreak of the pandemic, 4.071 people have died from COVID-19 in Serbia.

"We have to be careful"

A significant increase in the number of cases reported with the new strain of the novel coronavirus has been seen, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca has said, noting that the new strain is more easily transmitted, and the number of new coronavirus variant cases is expected to continue to increase.

A 15-year-old coronavirus patient died in Thiva General Hospital on Wednesday, according to a report by the state-run Athens-Macedonian news agency (ANA-MPA).

According to the report, the girl had undiagnosed medical conditions. She died of heart failure.

Proceedings were initiated against her because she got infected with COVID-19, and yet she came to work and thus endangered the health of colleagues, patients and babies, according to TV Prva.
Dr Raki traveled abroad and upon her return to Serbia, she did not perform a negative PCR test, nor did she spend ten days in isolation.

Health authorities and scientists are on alert for the apparent spread of the British variant of SARS-CoV-2 and the detection of the South African variant in Greece.