Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus

Three Romanians infected with SARS-CoV-2 were reported dead in the last 24 hours (a man and two women), taking the country's death toll to 34,334, shows data released on Thursday by the Strategic Communication Group (GCS). The three patients had been hospitalised in the counties of Arges, Constanta and Vaslui. Two deaths were in the 60 - 69 age range and one in the 80-plus age category.

Over 60 pct of the employees in healthcare are either vaccinated, or had the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the past 6 months and have the necessary antibodies, so that the individual vaccination decision, in their case, may be postponed without endangering anyone, according to the Sanitas Federation.

The Government approved a decision to extend the state of alert, Prime Minister Florin Citu announced on Thursday. "In today's Government meeting, we also approved the Government's decision to extend the state of alert," the prime minister said at Victoria Palace.

An international team of scientists say they have found traces of an ancient plague in the ancestral genetic makeup of East Asians.

An international study found that plague corona virus ever spread in East Asia more than 20,000 years ago. In this study, the scientists stated that they found traces of plague in the genetic order of people from that area.

Vaccines protect us from the new SARS-CoV-2 strains as well, Secretary of State with the Health Ministry Andrei Baciu informed on Monday, quoting a British study. "Vaccines protect us from the new SARS-CoV-2 strains!

A new antibody testing study published on June 15 has found further evidence that the coronavirus was present in the United States from at least December 2019, weeks before the first confirmed case was announced on January 21, 2020.

President Joe Biden ordered aides to find answers to the origin of the virus that causes COVID-19, saying on May 26 that U.S. intelligence agencies are pursuing rival theories potentially including the possibility of a laboratory accident in China.

The Capital City of Bucharest and all counties of the Romania remain in the green scenario in terms of SARS-CoV-2 infections, the Strategic Communication Group (GCS) announced on Sunday. In Bucharest, the SARS-CoV-2 infection rate is 1.06 cases per thousand inhabitants, down from the previous day, when it registered an incidence of 1.11 cases per thousand inhabitants.

Some 85 percent of new COVID-19 cases across Turkey are due to the U.K. variant, the country's health minister said on April 12, urging people to adhere to coronavirus measures to stem the spread of the virus.

Ljubljana – The Jožef Stefan Institute (IJS) has announced that it had articles by its researchers published in Nature and Science, two of the most prestigious international scientific journals, in a span of only two days, in what is considered a remarkable achievement for Slovenia.