Smallpox vaccine

As the lone laboratory manufacturing a licensed vaccine against monkeypox, Danish company Bavarian Nordic has seen its order book fill up as the usually rare disease spreads around the world.

Turkey has widened its vaccination program to cover new groups, including academics, university staff, and musicians, as well as movie and TV series production crews.

"We will remove the outbreak from the country's agenda as soon as possible as we add more professionals and age groups to the inoculation program by the day," Health Minister Fahrettin Koca wrote on Twitter.

Ukraine's ambassador to Turkey, Andrii Sybiha, and his wife received their first dose of the coronavirus vaccine as part of Ankara's vaccination program on March 15.

Sybiha shared a picture of himself and his wife receiving the vaccine at Ankara City Hospital on Twitter.

"Our health is great; we are acting in line with the doctors' advice," Sybiha said.

Bulgarian authorities are discussing a step-by-step loosening of anti-epidemic measures in the country. It is possible to open some new facilities every two weeks. These actions will be further discussed this week before a final decision is taken, Minister of Labor and Social Policy Denitsa Sacheva told "Hello, Bulgaria" TV talk show. 

Turkey will vaccinate around 60 million people against COVID-19 in an injection drive that is set to begin at the end of December.

Pregnant women, citizens under the age of 18, and those who have recovered from the virus within the past six months will be exempted from the vaccinations.

After Russia, corona vaccination campaign will be started in Britain from today also. After the public vaccination campaign of the corona vaccine, Sputnik-V started in Russia on Saturday, now in Britain, the vaccination campaign will start from today.

He estimated that next week will be very difficult, but that there will be a slight calming down at the end of the week.
Tiodorovi said on RTS that the epidemiological situation in Serbia is very serious, extraordinary, and in some parts of Serbia, especially in big cities, it is catastrophic.