Virology

Ljubljana – Coronavirus keeps retreating in Slovenia with Thursday’s 2,364 new cases pushing the 14-day incidence below 2,000. However, official data also show the number of ICU rising to a new high as the disease claimed 17 more lives.

The World Health Organization is convening extraordinary meetings today in connection with the newly discovered variant of the coronavirus in South Africa and Botswana, which was announced yesterday. It has about 32 mutations and scientists warn that this makes it very dangerous. It has been found that the variant is spread mostly among young people.

The new cases of coronavirus infection for the past 24 hours are 3233, slightly less than the data for the previous day, when they were 3462, according to the Unified Information Portal.

The death toll in the last 24 hours is 151, which is less than the previous day, when 254 deaths were reported. Of those who died in the last 24 hours, 94 percent have not been vaccinated.

Ljubljana – Health Minister Janez Poklukar and the head of the Medical Chamber Bojana Beović warned about the possibility of the fifth wave of Covid infections. Poklukar thinks that another wave could emerge in February next year as a result of an insufficient vaccination rate.

Women have more confidence in vaccines

In the spring at the latest, everyone living in Germany will be immune to the disease. They will either be vaccinated, recovered, or dead. This was stated today at a press conference by the Minister of Health Jens Spahn.

Professor Panagis Galiatsatos, a professor of pulmonary medicine and critical care at Johns Hopkins, has projected that the COVID-19 pandemic will last another 6-8 months, but once it ends the virus will remain with us.

There are 12,136 children in Bulgaria with completed vaccination against COVID-19. This was announced by the Ministry of Health / MH / in the profile of the department on Facebook. 16,195 children were immunized with the first dose of COVID-19 vaccines. To date, a total of 28,331 vaccines have been given to children aged 12 to 17, inclusive.

People have become demotivated about adhering to the rules against COVID-19 and conditions are leading to an "anti-virus measures' fatigue," Health Minister Fahrettin Koca has said. 

He warned that the anti-virus measures must be strictly observed once again during the winter months. 

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