Medicine

From today, January 29, until the end of April Bulgaria introduces the requirement for all arrivals in the country to show a medical certificate for a negative result of a PCR coronavirus test, carried out up to 72 hours before entering the country. Travelers without such a test will be put under a 10-day quarantine.

So far, there is no abolition of anti-epidemic measures, Dr Darija Kisi Tepavevi said.
The measure related to the mandatory negative PCR test for entering Serbia from Hungary has not been abolished either.

Inhabitants of remote Greek islands received the Covid-19 vaccine this week as the government rolled out its inoculation campaign to include tiny villages, some with no more than a couple of dozens inhabitants.

An offer that cannot be missed came from Moscow - the company behind the Russian vaccine against coronavirus offered the European Union to send them 100.000.000 doses of "Sputnik V" vaccine during the second quarter of this year.

The European Medicines Agency says no new side effects linked to the coronavirus vaccine made by BioNTech and Pfizer - and used in Greece right now - were identified in the regulator's first safety update on Covid-19 vaccines.

He added that the country was waiting to see how the mass vaccination with the Chinese vaccine in Serbia would go.
In early January, Serbia received one million doses of the Chinese vaccine Sinopharm, and thus became the first European country to start a mass vaccination program with that vaccine, Reuters reports.

Another vaccine against Covid, trialled in the UK and bought by the government, has been shown to be nearly 90% effective and work against the UK and South African variants of the virus.

New 40.000 doses were delivered this morning at around six o'clock, and the plane with vaccines was welcomed by the Minister of Innovation Nenad Popovi at the Belgrade "Nikola Tesla" airport.
With the new 40.000 doses, 20.000 people will be able to be vaccinated.
Prime Minister Ana Brnabi announced yesterday that new quantities of the "Pfizer" vaccine will arrive on Monday.

Experts from the World Health Organization met Chinese officials on Jan. 29 ahead of their first site visits in Wuhan for a coronavirus origins probe which will take in a food market presumed to be "ground zero" of the pandemic.

Novavax Inc. said Thursday that its COVID-19 vaccine appears 89% effective based on early findings from a British study and that it also seems to work- though not as well- against new mutated versions of the virus circulating in that country and South Africa.