Health sciences

"We will maintain these measures, we will not tighten them. Schools should start working, students should return to the benches or a combined teaching model should be applied. We must also keep the PCR test or the quarantine measure for those who do not have it," he said.
He believes that by respecting the measures during the holidays, we have avoided a new wave.

Ljubljana – Slovenia is to receive 26,000 doses of the newly approved Moderna coronavirus vaccine by the end of February, the Health Ministry said on Saturday. The European Commission and Moderna agreed on the supply of 80 million doses with the possibility of increase by another 80 million doses. Slovenia has the right to 369,767 doses from each supply.

The National Committee for the Coordination of Vaccination Activities against COVID-19 informs that, in the past 24 hours, 5,993 persons have been immunised against the novel coronavirus, with Pfizer BioNTech vaccine, according to data provided by the National Institute of Public Health, through the application of the National Electronic Register of Vaccinations.

Turkish scientists are working to start human trials of a locally developed COVID-19 vaccine by the end of January, the country's industry and technology minister has said.

Pope Francis and Britain's Queen Elizabeth became the latest high-profile figures to join the global vaccination campaign against the coronavirus, as the U.K. reported it had surpassed more than three million cases since the pandemic began more than a year ago.

The national committee for coordinating the anti-COVID vaccination informs that in the past 24 hours there were 16,306 people immunized with the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine, against the novel coronavirus, according to the data shared by the National Institute of Public Health, through the National Electronic Vaccination Register application.

More than two weeks after the Christmas holiday, a leading indicator of coronavirus infection appears to be in a slight decline in Thessaloniki, researchers say.

Europe's medicines regulator expects drugmaker AstraZeneca to apply for approval of its Covid-19 vaccine next week, it said on Friday.

The Astrazeneca shot, which was developed with Oxford University, was given a green light by authorities in Britain on Dec. 30.

Iran's Supreme Leader said he was banning the import of coronavirus vaccines made by U.S. and U.K. companies, limiting the country's options as it confronts the worst outbreak in the Middle East.

Romania ranks second in the European Union in terms of the birth rate among adolescent mothers, pregnancy in adolescence having many negative consequences on expectant mothers, as well as social and economic costs, according to a study conducted by UNICEF together with the SAMAS Association in Romania.