COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa

"We can believe that the fourth wave is subsiding. Mortality is falling, but remains high due to poor health of Bulgarians, problems in the health care system. In Bulgaria, cases that end fatally are unvaccinated, and at risk."

This was said to BNR by the epidemiologist Prof. Mira Kozhuharova, advisor to the Minister of Health.

Turkey has detected the first cases of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, the country's health minister has said, calling on people to remain calm but vigilant.

"One of the [Omicron] cases was in Istanbul and the other five cases were in [the western province of] İzmir," Fahrettin Koca told lawmakers in parliament on Dec. 11 during discussions on the Health Ministry's 2022 budget.

The number of COVID-19 cases in Turkey has been steady for more than a month, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca has said, urging people to stick to the anti-virus measures to keep the pandemic under control.

An analysis of 13.767 samples was performed. According to the latest data, 187 people are on a respirator.
Also, 3.180 people were hospitalized.
Professor Dr Radmilo Jankovi, Deputy Director of UCC Ni, said that the introduction of new measures for the New Year is not realistic.

He stated that the number of infected people is decreasing, as well as the number of patients in intensive care, but that the situation is still not completely favorable, because, as he says, we still have a high number of deaths.

"Since the virus has not entered the country by St. Nicholas Day, it does not have time to enter and become dominant until Christmas and New Year. However, it needs some time, when the virus enters the country, to run wild and replace the current variant, which is aggressive enough and will not be given so easily. It will take 2-3 weeks." This is what the mathematician Prof.

The data shows that the treatment is effective against all 37 mutations that have been identified to date in the Omicron variant

He expressed hope that the critical phase of the COVID pandemic would end next year.
"It would be foolish to make a different prediction, I believe that the acute phase of the pandemic will end sometime in 2022," Gates said on the Gates Notes personal blog.

Omicron will not skip us, just as none of the other variants skipped us. So far no additional measures are needed, we have taken all the necessary ones. This was stated to bTV by the caretaker Minister of Health Stoycho Katsarov.

Three doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine appear effective against the Omicron variant, a lab test indicated - encouraging news, even as Denmark and Britain announced new restrictions to stem surging caseloads.