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The national committee for coordinating the anti-COVID vaccination informs that in the past 24 hours there were 17,846 people immunized with the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine, against the coronavirus, according to the data shared by the National Institute of Public Health, through the National Electronic Vaccination Register application.

The hospitals of Nafplio and Argos in the Peloponnese received their first batches of the Pfizer-BioTech Covid-19 vaccines on Thursday, January 7, 2021. In Nafplio, the truck transporting the 115 doses was greeted with applause from the health workers and the deputy manager of the local hospital, Theodore Vassilopoulos, while the hospital in Argos received 145 doses.

We attest to a positive effect of the anti-epidemic measures in the country, announced by Minister of Health Prof. Kostadin Angelov during the regular briefing of the health authorities on the spread of coronavirus in Bulgaria.

This is the highest number of new infections in one day since the outbreak of the epidemic.
But the largest number of tests was done - 22.194, the Slovenian government announced today.
PCR and antigen tests were performed, and 15.1 percent of those tested were positive, reports the 24UR portal.

He said that we will enter 2022 unburdened and with a good scenario.
Tiodorovi explained for the daily Blic that we will have to adhere to everything during the summer as well, because even with vaccination, it takes a month and a half to two to create a protective level of immunity.

Health Minister Vassilis Kikilias on Tuesday called for the resignation of the director of a public hospital in central Greece for circulating an unauthorized consent form to staff slated to receive the coronavirus vaccination.

The government intends to start the second stage of anti-COVID-19 vaccination as of the middle of next week, Prime Minister Florin Citu told an online video conference with prefects on Tuesday. In this context, he spoke of the need to prepare the more than 900 vaccination centres in the country.

One week after the COVID-19 vaccine is given, antibody production begins. This was stated this evening before BNT by Dr. Alexander Simidchiev, a pulmonologist, head of the department for functional diagnostics at the Ministry of Interior hospital.

This was stated tonight by the State Secretary in the Ministry of Health, Mirsad Djerlek.
He told RTS that the interest of citizens in vaccination is great, which shows that there is a very high awareness that vaccination is the best way to fight the coronavirus.

Greece started vaccinating elderly care home residents against Covid-19 on Monday in the next phase of its inoculation campaign that begun nine days ago.

Officials want around 100,000 health care workers, care home residents and other vulnerable people to be inoculated against the coronavirus by Jan. 20, before rolling out the vaccine to the wider population.