Infectious diseases

129 New Cases of Omicron were Identified in Bulgaria

Co-infection between influenza strain A (H3N2) and SARS-CoV-2 proved by National Center for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases (NCIPD)

129 cases of the viral variant Omicron of SARS-CoV-2 have been identified in Bulgaria after cell genomic sequencing performed by the National Center for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases.

Bulgarian Doctor: This is Not a Wave, this is a Tsunami, we have Too Many Patients

"We observe people with COVID-19 brought by their relatives, and then they do not appear in the quarantined list at all. Contacts are not isolated, they continue to walk the streets. It is not a betrayal to say who was in contact with you when you are infected". This was stated by Dr. Gergana Nikolova from BMA on Nova TV.

"Children should go to school and kindergarten, they are ideal carriers of the virus"

According to Dr Sekler, it can be noticed that "the virus has crossed two thirds of the way and that everything is on the right track for now".
Sekler told RTS that the winter period is generally the season of respiratory diseases, and he estimated that children should go to kindergartens and schools.

WHO: Europe is Probably on the Verge of an End to the Pandemic

The Omicron variant has moved the Covid pandemic into a new phase and is likely to bring it to an end in Europe, the World Health Organization's regional director for Europe said on Sunday.

"It is plausible that the region is moving towards the final phase of the pandemic," Hans Kluge told AFP, adding that Omicron could infect 60% of Europeans by March.

Europe could be headed for pandemic ‘endgame’: WHO

The Omicron variant has moved the COVID-19 pandemic into a new phase and could bring it to an end in Europe, the WHO Europe director has said.

"It's plausible that the region is moving towards a kind of pandemic endgame," Hans Kluge told AFP in an interview on Jan. 23, adding that Omicron could infect 60 percent of Europeans by March.

COVID-19 in Bulgaria: Over 80% of Patients in Sofia are with Omicron, in the Country – 40%

Over 80 percent of patients in Sofia have the Omicron variant. This percentage for the country is a little over 40. It is a fact that it runs with milder symptoms, but is much more contagious.

COVID-19 in Bulgaria: Almost 10,000 New Cases in the Last 24 hours

More than 16.000 newly infected, 30 people died

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.

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