Medicine

Bulgaria will order over 3 million additional doses of RNA vaccines. This was announced by Minister of Health Kostadin Angelov in the framework of today's government meeting. To this end, the government allocates extra BGN 9 million.

As announced by President Aleksandar Vui yesterday, it was ensured that a total of another 88.000 doses of Pfizer would arrive on February 15 and 22, 42.000 on the first occasion and 46.000 on the second.

Prognoses for a new wave of Covid-19 are realistic, warned Director of Alexandrovska Hospital Prof. Boris Bogov in the morning show of BNT.

Ljubljana – Slovenia reported 357 coronavirus infections on Monday from a total of 11,253 tests in what continues to be a week-on-week decline. Slovenia has met both thresholds for entering the orange tier of restrictions, an improvement that may also be a result of scaled-down testing over the long weekend. 19 Covid patients died, show fresh official data.

All those arriving in the UK will be required to take two coronavirus tests during their mandatory 10-day quarantine in a bid to prevent from spreading new strains of the virus coming from abroad.

This is one of the new measures to be officially announced today by the British government.

A total of 1,176 patients have been discharged from the ICU since the beginning of the pandemic

Romania's healthcare officials are estimating that the third stage of the COVID-19 national vaccination campaign will start in April, if the dose delivery dates remain as originally planned, Chairman of the National COVID-19 Vaccination Coordination Committee (CNCAV) Valeriu Gheorghita said on Tuesday. "The third stage will probably start in April.

Head of the National Committee for the coordination of vaccination against SARS-CoV-2, doctor Valeriu Gheorghita, informs that the total number of people vaccinated against COVID-19 until February 8, with Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, has reached 661,062, with 430,776 people who got the first dose and 230,286 people who got the second dose as well.

Vui said that 50.000 doses of the Russian vaccine against the coronavirus Sputnik V arrived at the Belgrade airport this morning, and that more Pfizer vaccines and AstraZeneca vaccines will arrive by the end of February.

During his address at the video summit, Orbn praised the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vui, and his attitude towards vaccination and the success of Serbia.
He said that the Chinese vaccine was approved in Hungary and announced the arrival of the first contingent of vaccines next week.