Virology

Vaccines to fight cancer will be widely available before 2030, say husband and wife Prof. Ugur Şahin and Prof. Özlem Tureçi, creators of one of the most successful vaccines against COVID-19, writes in the New York Times.

Lessons learned from the pandemic will accelerate cancer treatments based on mRNA technology, they say.

In the last 24 hours, 5,258 tests for COVID-19 were performed, and 783 new cases were detected in Bulgaria, according to data from the Unified Information Portal.

This means that the share of positive results is 14.9%.

58.37% of the new cases were not vaccinated.

A booster dose of a new malaria vaccine maintains a high level of protection against the disease, researchers said Thursday, expressing hopes the cheap jab could be produced on a massive scale in a matter of years.

Ljubljana – Some 370,000 doses of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines so far approved against two sub-lineages of the Omicron variant of coronavirus will be delivered to Slovenia this week, with more shots to arrive by the end of the month, the National Institute for Public Health (NIJZ) told the STA on Tuesday.

The increase in the number of COVID-19 cases fuels the virus' mutation, an expert has said, urging people to wear face masks to limit the spread of the virus.

"The rise in infections also accelerates the emergence of new mutations," said Faruk Yorulmaz, a professor from Trakya University.

Epidemiologist Branislav Tiodorovi said today the medical part of the crisis headquarters might propose delaying the start of the school year by seven days.
He said that in ten days they will assess the epidemic situation.

He has received 4 doses of his company’s vaccine

Britain has become the first country in the world to approve a bivalent vaccine against COVID-19, which "works" simultaneously against the original and the current version of the Omicron coronavirus.

538 new cases of coronavirus infection were registered in Bulgaria during the past 24 hours. This is according to the data of the Unified Information Portal as of zero hour on July 2.

The tests done were 3903, i.e. the positive samples were 13.78 percent.

The new cases of coronavirus in Bulgaria in the last 24 hours are 240, according to the data of the Unified Information Portal.

1974 tests were performed for the day, of which 12.2 percent were positive.

The active cases are 61 301, and 122 people were reported cured.