Influenza A virus subtype H1N1

Turkey's Health Minister Fahrettin Koca has proposed an individually-declared emergency rule for Turkish citizens as the coronavirus is infecting more people across the country, urging a strictly implemented self-containment for at least three weeks during which the pandemic could make its peak.

As an international conference speaker, I am often asked, "What keeps you awake at night?" My consistent reply over the years has been: Pandemics. History is littered with catastrophic examples.

Singapore, a tiny city-state of less than 6 million people, had one of the earliest and biggest clusters of cases of the coronavirus in early February, before it began its rapid, inexorable expansion around the globe.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told Greeks on Tuesday that the country was "at war" with COVID-19, and warned that measures to fight the pandemic would hurt the fragile Greek economy.

Some 387 people in Greece have tested positive for coronavirus COVID-19 since February 26; five people have died and 70 are being treated in hospital, 11 of whom are in intensive care.

More than 182 260 people are infected with the new coronavirus worldwide. The deaths are 7165. In addition to China, there are 161 cases worldwide. More than 79,000 people have been cured so far, most of them in China, according to Reuters and the Associated Press.

The notorious traffic congestion in Istanbul, Turkey's largest city by population, has eased over the past week amid the global coronavirus pandemic that is keeping residents away from the streets. 

The World Health Organization called on all countries on March 16 to ramp up their testing programs as the best way to slow the advance of the coronavirus pandemic, and also urged companies to boost production of vital equipment to overcome acute shortages.

There are already more fatal cases in the rest of the world than in China, the World Health Organization announced on Monday.

"More deaths and deaths have been reported in the rest of the world than in China," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters in Geneva without citing recent data.

62 are infected with a COVID-19 in Bulgaria. This was announced by Prof. Ventsislav Mutafchiiski at a briefing. 4 of the 95 samples taken at the MMA were positive. The patients are under home treatment.

145 samples were taken at the National Laboratory, 6 of which were positive.

The reason, as Tanjug unofficially learns, is a telephone summit of EU leaders taking place over a coronavirus pandemic.
Vucic has said earlier that the main topics of talks will be the continuation of dialogue with Pristina and, in particular, the new situation following the outbreak of the coronavirus epidemic.