Pandemics

The World Health Organization (WHO) regional director for Europe said yesterday he believes the coronavirus outbreak will end in early 2022, reported the Anadolu Agency.

Hans Kluge told Danish state broadcaster DR that Covid-19 will still be prevalent in 2021, but it will be more manageable than in 2020.

A number of 1,634 new cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection have been registered in the last 24 hours following 10,000 tests performed nationwide, the Strategic Communication Group (GCS) reports on Monday. These are all cases that have not previously tested positive, the GCS states. As many as 781,329 cases of people infected with the novel coronavirus had been confirmed in Romania as of Sunday.

Nearly a year after the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, almost every second Bulgarian believes that it has changed not just individual aspects of our daily life, but our overall way of life,  show the results of the latest nationally representative survey of Alpha Research, conducted between 8-15 February among 1,007 adult citizens.

Healthy, young volunteers will be infected with coronavirus to test vaccines and treatments in the world's first Covid-19 "human challenge" study, which will take place in the UK.

The study, which has received ethics approval, will start in the next few weeks and recruit 90 people aged 18-30.

The British version of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes the disease COVID-19) was found in 70 percent of the samples in Bulgaria, which were suspected to contain it, said the Center for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases.

Turkish authorities are considering measures, including possible new curbs, to respond to a spike in the number of COVID-19 cases as well as the presence of virus variants in the country.

As part of the possible precautionary actions, some region-specific restrictions may be introduced, said officials, without elaborating on what they might be.

A much-anticipated inquiry into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic wrapped up its mission in China on Feb. 9 with no breakthrough discovery, as investigators ruled out a theory that COVID-19 came from a lab while failing to identify which animal may have passed it to humans.

It has been nearly one year since the COVID-19 pandemic hit Greece with huge repercussions, many not even calculated yet.

The director of the National Center for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases Prof. Todor Kantardzhiev said today that if the measures are not observed - the gathering of people in malls and mocking wearing of masks continues,  a new wave at the end  of February could be expected.

It can be said that this institute is currently the most controversial place in the world, if we take into account numerous theories that the spread of the virus that infected and killed millions of people and locked the whole world started from there.