Global health

The Health Ministry's Science Board will discuss the latest situation in the COVID-19 pandemic and the virus-related measures, the country's top health official has said.

Speaking at the northwestern province of Bursa, Fahrettin Koca noted that the number of daily infections has declined to 3,200 as of April 17, which marked the lowest level in the past one and a half years.

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.

The EU, chaired by France, has launched a joint health union initiative with a joint declaration, said French Health Minister Olivier Veran.

The text will be called the "Grenoble Declaration" after the French city, where EU health ministers met to discuss their ambitions for closer coordination.

"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

At the same time, the most populous New South Wales today records the highest number of deaths since the outburst of the pandemic.
In New South Wales, 49 people died in the last 24 hours, including one child, while in Victoria, 20 patients died from the effects of COVID-19, Reuters reports.

The index has been revised to reflect experience from the Covid-19 pandemic

More than half a billion people worldwide were brought to extreme poverty last year because they had to pay for health care themselves during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization and the World Bank said on Sunday.

"We expect a double epidemic in our country - from influenza and coronavirus. Maybe we will have a more severe flu season." Such a forecast was made in the studio of "Sabudi Se" on Nova TV by Georgi Popov, an expert on infectious diseases at Sofiamed University Hospital. According to him, the health system will withstand the pressure.