Virology

"At the moment, there is no evidence that the new strain of coronavirus, discovered in the UK, makes the vaccine meaningless, because the vaccine, like the natural disease, leads to the formation of neutralizing antibodies and cellular immunity. " said, Head of the Department of Infectious Diseases at the Medical University in Sofia.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Monday he planned to receive a Covid-19 vaccine jab on December 27, kicking off a national roll-out over the following months.

A number of 2,489 new cases of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 have been reported in the last 24 hours, following 7,116 tests nationwide, the Strategic Communication Group (GCS) informed on Monday. These are cases that have not previously had a positive test, says GCS. So far, 593,783 cases of people infected with the new coronavirus have been confirmed in Romania.

"The number of new cases of COVID-19 and mortality do not decrease at the expected rate after the introduction of new measures because there is a hidden morbidity. There are infected people who prefer not to be examined, do not allow us to register them - to quarantine them and their relatives," said Director of "Pirogov" emergency hospital Prof. Asen Baltov on bTV this morning.

There is currently no evidence that a new coronavirus strain that has caused cases to soar in the UK will render vaccines less effective, a prominent Greek expert has said.

This was stated by one of the directors of that organization, Sylvie Brian, for the French BFM television, as reported by TASS.

There is no hiding from the new strain of COVID-19 . It is probably already in Bulgaria, it should be because people travel. Even if we close the UK, the new strain will not be stopped as it is already spreading in other countries. That's what immunologist Prof. Andrey Chorbanov said on NOVA TV.

A number of 3,350 new cases of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 have been registered in the last 24 hours, following 12,234 tests nationwide, the Strategic Communication Group (GCS) reported on Sunday. These are cases that have not previously had a positive test, says GCS. So far, 591,294 cases of people infected with the new coronavirus have been confirmed in Romania.

As a guest on Prva TV, he thanked everyone who is working on equipping COVID hospital in Kruevac, which will be opened on Sunday.
"As far as the vaccine is concerned, I have absolute trust in Varhelyi, he is a sincere friend of Serbia and he is trying to get Serbia to receive the vaccine on time," he said.

The Chinese are the most eager to take the vaccine