Life sciences

Ljubljana – Some 370,000 doses of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines so far approved against two sub-lineages of the Omicron variant of coronavirus will be delivered to Slovenia this week, with more shots to arrive by the end of the month, the National Institute for Public Health (NIJZ) told the STA on Tuesday.

Anti-vaxxers mislead people, Turkish experts have said, while evaluating a South Korean survey refuting claims that COVID-19 vaccines cause heart attacks.

"We have reached the ridge - the most cases per unit of time. I think that within two weeks we will be able to observe a gradual decrease in the number of new cases. Of course, this largely depends on people's behavior."

"The new measures will be announced in a day or two because it is very important to limit the spread of the virus", the director of the National Center for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Prof. Iva Hristova, announced on Bulgaria On Air.

A new study has uncovered a new platform for cells to talk to one another, which appears to play a role in the aging process

"The new wave of the spread of covid in the world has already begun". This was stated by the CEO of Pfizer Albert Bourla in an interview with the newspaper "The Jerusalem Post".

Some children were admitted with two viruses and a few with three simultaneously

"We are already in a new wave of COVID-19", confirmed on Nova TV the chief state health inspector Dr. Angel Kunchev.

"We are moving 3-4 weeks after what is happening in Western Europe. In the next two to three weeks, we are expected to face an increase in the new wave," he said.

Nearly 20 million lives were saved by COVID-19 vaccines during their first year, but even more deaths could have been prevented if international targets for the shots had been reached, researchers have reported.

As of June 23, 2022, two cases of monkeypox have been confirmed in Bulgaria. The patients are men aged 41 and 44, respectively. Both are hospitalized in hospitals in the capital and are in good general condition. Laboratory samples sent by medical institutions were confirmed at the National Center for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases by specific real-time PCR analyzes.