Microbiology

"If the virus was massively present, we would have discovered it earlier. We would have known the number of those who had flu-like illnesses, and this was not something special," Kon told RTS this morning.
He said that after lifting the state of emergency, contacts would continue to be avoided, which would continue to be especially true for those over 65 and for chronic patients.

Australian authorities will spend more than $ 450 million to develop a coronavirus vaccine, to find drugs and create diagnostic tools. This was stated by Prime Minister Scott Morrison.

As hundreds of scientists around the world have been scrambling to develop a vaccine to end the novel coronavirus pandemic, a prominent Turkish professor has said she expects more than one vaccine to be found for COVID-19.

She said the virus was still circulating but was no longer as unfamiliar as it was at the start of the pandemic.

Hundreds of people are rolling up their sleeves in countries across the world to be injected with experimental vaccines that might stop COVID-19, spurring hope maybe unrealistic that an end to the pandemic may arrive sooner than anticipated.

An additional 373 people were placed under 14-day quarantine in this province on May 1 after returning from abroad amid the novel coronavirus.

The Şanlıurfa provincial governorate said 100 were brought from Iraq by bus and 273 from Algeria by plane. A total of 299 were Turks.

Six people have died, three men and three women, bringing total number of dead to 168, while 1.260 patients recovered, and 79 of them are presently on respirators.
5.446 people were tested in the last 24 hours, and 222 patients were infected with the coronavirus until 3 pm today.
A total of confirmed cases of coronavirus is 8.497, out of 73.363 tested.

Argentina has banned all domestic and international civilian flights until September 1 because of the spread of the coronavirus, the BBC reported.

Authorities have announced that airlines should not sell tickets for flights that may not be operated within the next 4 months.

Industry has warned that thousands of people may lose their jobs.

The signs are becoming painfully clearer by the day.

Police arrested on Friday five migrants who left a migrant camp in Malakassa, east Attica, despite being quarantined.

The migrants were found at the Larissis metro station and returned to the camp, police said.

It was not clear why they left the center and where they were heading.