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Can you get a green certificate for antibodies? Maybe it depends on how persistent you are and how many times you try.

Yesterday's issued green certificates can also be given to people who have not been vaccinated, but after testing show that they have antibodies, for example after a disease that may be asymptomatic.

The certificate will be issued by the National Health Information System, as after vaccination, but will be valid only in Bulgaria.

From today, a green certificate will be issued to people with antibodies after suffering from Covid. Laboratories expect increased interest in the tests, but there are fears that the reagents will not be enough.

From tomorrow - November 11, we will be able to issue a green certificate for people with proven antibodies to coronavirus. What are the criteria for the document - the topic in "The day begins" commented Prof. Radka Argirova, immunologist.

She explained that there are three main groups of people who will be subject to a green certificate based on antibodies.

Antibody tests can be falsified much more easily than other tests. This was stated by Prof. Georgi Momekov from the Department of Pharmacology, Pharmacotherapy and Toxicology at MU - Sofia in the studio of "Hello, Bulgaria".

These are questions many people gone through coronavirus wondering about - how do we know that are we protected from Covid-19? Vaccinated  are also wondering whether they are already immune to the virus.

Antibody tests may have many answers and can help with all of these questions, although they don't provide absolute clarity about levels of immunity.

Two members of a World Health Organization-led team that arrived on Thursday in China's Wuhan city to investigate the origins of COVID-19 remained behind in Singapore after testing positive for coronavirus antibodies, the global body said.

Τhe production of the first Greek rapid antigen test for the study and defeat of the Covid-19 pandemic has entered the final stretch.

The COVID-19 death toll in Spain has reached 4089 today, after 655 people died within 24 hours, the BNR reported, citing AFP.

This is a 19 percent growth compared to Wednesday.

The number of reported cases of COVID-19 in the country has increased to 56 188. Spain ranks second in terms of victims of the disease after Italy.

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