Occupational safety and health

With the completion of their first semester through online education implemented due to the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly 18 million Turkish students received their virtual mid-term report cards on Jan. 22 and began a three-week winter break.

The European Commission proposed to EU leaders on Thursday identifying "dark red" coronavirus hot spots from which all but essential travel would be discouraged after a meeting to discuss the mounting challenge from more infectious virus variants.

Daily Covid-19 fatalities fell to 25 on Thursday from 27 on Wednesday, according to the latest data from the National Organization for Public Health (EODY).

The overall death toll in Greece stood at 5,570.

A device as big as a telephone receiver can detect the presence of Covid-19 even before the virus could be detected by a PCR. It has been developed by a team of Italian, Spanish and Bulgarian scientists and is already used in diagnosing and tracking the infection.

Daily Covid-19 fatalities fell to 27 on Wednesday from 30 on Tuesday, according to the latest data form the National Organization for Public Health (EODY).

The overall death toll in Greece stood at 5,545.

There were 516 new cases of SARS-CoV- 2 reported in the country of which 16 were reported at the country's entry points, while the total number of infections rose to 149,973.

A new study comparing the incidence of sudden deaths occurring outside the hospital across New York City's highly diverse neighbourhoods with the percentage of positive SARS-CoV-19 tests found that increased sudden deaths during the pandemic correlate to the extent of virus infection in a neighbourhood.

Ljubljana – Slovenia logged 1,690 new coronavirus infections from 14,010 tests on Monday as the daily increase in cases fell on the week before for the tenth day running. Government data also show that 25 more Covid-19 patients died.

Government data show 5,306 PCR tests and 8,704 rapid antigen tests were performed yesterday, of which 22.8% and 5.5%, respectively, came back positive.

20 people died, it is stated on the Covid19.rs website.
The total number of registered cases since the outbreak of the pandemic in our country is 375.799, while 3.791 died. The mortality rate is 1.01%
So far, a total of 2.496.125 citizens have been tested, of which 10.534 in the last 24 hours, out of which 1.688 are positive.

2.049.348 died as a consequence of COVID-19 infection, while 68.630.134 recovered.
The highest number of confirmed cases was recorded in the United States - more than 24.6 million, India - more than 10.5 million, Brazil - more than 8.5 million, Russia - almost 3.6 million and the United Kingdom - more than 3.4 million.

Greece's Labor Ministry is exploring legislation that may list the novel coronavirus as an occupational hazard and death from Covid-19 as a work-related accident.