SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant

From Monday, Greece will remove the requirement for a negative test for COVID-19 to enter the country, Health Minister Thanos Plevris was quoted as saying by Macedonia's MIA news agency. From 8 February, only the presentation of an EU digital COVID certificate will be sufficient for both vaccinated and non-vaccinated passengers.

The new sub-variant of Omicron BA.2 is already in Bulgaria. This is shown by data published on the website of the National Center for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases (NCIPD).

The pediatrician Dr. Antonia Parvanova and the mathematician Prof. Ognyan Kunchev in a dispute on Nova TV about whether the green certificate should be revoked.

According to Parvanova, the document does not work as an epidemiological measure.

The country has seen a spike in the less severe Omicron variant

"The cellular immunity that humans acquire when vaccinated against Covid-19 protects against all previous variants of the coronavirus." This was said on the air of the Bulgarian National Radio by Prof.

Turkey will use the anti-COVID drug Molnupiravir in the early-stage treatment of coronavirus patients, the country's health minister has announced as daily infections continue to remain high.

This means that the youngest Americans could start receiving vaccines as early as March.
There are about 19 million children under the age of five in the United States, and they are the only age group that does not yet meet the conditions for vaccination against the coronavirus, AP reports.

The green certificate for Bulgaria will be needed for another month. This was stated on Nova TV by Professor Radka Argirova, adviser to the Prime Minister on the pandemic of COVID-19.

A sub-variant of the Omicron coronavirus variant has been found in 57 countries.

This was announced by the World Health Organization (WHO), reports AFP and BTA.

It is possible that it will be even more contagious than the original version, according to AFP.

Turkey's Health Minister Fahrettin Koca has said the difficult period in the fight against COVID-19 has been left behind and life will turn to normal soon, but stressed the current personal measures taken in protection against the virus will continue.

Noting that the pandemic was still on the agenda, Koca assured that "this will change in a short time."