Medicine

So far, 7.573 tests have been performed.
There are currently 265 people on respirators.
A total of 343.870 cases of coronavirus have been registered in Serbia since the outbreak of the epidemic.

Patients don’t immediately develop COVID-19 protection after being vaccinated, a specialist said

896 patients have been discharged from the ICU

The potential delay for reasons other than medical of the vaccination of the persons who have been scheduled to receive the Covid jab - in other words of persons who have clearly expressed their intention to vaccinate and who have made a considerable effort in this regard - requires prompt remediation, according to the powers and responsibilities of each institution involved, the National COVID

Romania's novel coronavirus caseload increased by a total of 5,132 since our last report - 3,938 on January 1 and 1,194 on January 2 - following 20,391 national tests performed, taking the total number of infected persons to 637,395, the Strategic Communication Group (GCS) reported today. These are all cases that have not previously had a positive test, the GCS states.

There are no side effects of the vaccine, Dr. Nikolay Branzalov, Vice-President of Bulgarian Medical Association (BMA) told Nova TV. He himself got vaccinated and said he did not feel pain.

Turkish Cypriots are looking forward to getting vaccinated against the novel coronavirus as authorities plan to start administering vaccines soon.

Turkish physical therapy and rehabilitation specialist has developed a urine kit to detect the novel coronavirus in 15 seconds.

Dr. Mehmet Serhan Kurtulmuş said he developed the kit in which a special reactant is used to detect parts specific to the virus that causes COVID-19.

Turkey announced its first cases of the U.K. coronavirus variant on Jan. 1 while stressing that all precautionary measures were being taken.

Šempeter pri Gorici/Novo Mesto – While Prime Minister Janez Janša has announced that a new shipment of Covid-19 vaccine will arrive in Slovenia next week to largely cover the healthcare sector, a Health Ministry official has called for as massive vaccination as possible to make sure that the state starts normally functioning again.