Epidemiology

Ljubljana – Only a day after confirming its first case of monkeypox, Slovenia reported a second case of infection with the virus on Wednesday. Like the first case, the infected person had travelled to Spain, the National Institute of Public Health (NIJZ) has announced on its website.

The United Arab Emirates became the first Gulf country to announce a case of monkeypox on Tuesday, insisting it was "fully prepared" to handle any outbreak.

The UAE is believed to be just the second Middle Eastern country after Israel to detect monkeypox, whose appearance in a number of countries has caused alarm after the coronavirus pandemic.

According to the first information, it is a man who returned from the Canary Islands.
The head of the Slovenian Center for Infectious Diseases, Mario Fafangel, said that the infected person was admitted to the hospital and that he was feeling well.
He emphasized that the risk for the general population is assessed as low.

Assoc. Prof. Velislava Terzieva, Head of the Laboratory of Virology at the University Hospital "Lozenets" and researcher at the Institute of Biology and Immunology of Reproduction - "Acad. Kiril Bratanov" - BAS was a guest on the Bulgarian National Radio.

Ljubljana – Slovenia recorded an excess mortality rate of 15% last year, when the Covid-19 epidemic was in full swing, the Statistics Office said on Monday. The worst month of 2021 was November, when 49% more people died than the average for the same period in 2015-2019.

"The cellular immunity that humans acquire when vaccinated against Covid-19 protects against all previous variants of the coronavirus." This was said on the air of the Bulgarian National Radio by Prof.

The measures in our country are also imposed on the vaccinated because there is a large number of people without immunization.

WHO leaders warned that letting the virus circulate at this scale could result in the emergence of new, potentially more dangerous variants

Get ready to learn more Greek letters - scientists have warned that the dizzying progress of the omicron strain practically ensures that it will not be the last version of the coronavirus that will worry the world.

In the last 24 hours, 30 people died.
There are 113 patients on respirators.
In the last 24 hours, 34.817 samples were tested in Serbia.
There are 2.729 COVID patients in hospital, 35 more than in the previous update, and 113 people on respirators, four less than the data published yesterday. Mortality is currently 0.87 percent.