Centre for Communicable Diseases

EU much better coordinated and prepared a year into epidemic, debate hears

Published by The Slovenia Times on Sat, 02/27/2021 - 07:42

Ljubljana – About a year into the Covid-19 pandemic, the EU is better prepared to the crisis than at the beginning and better coordinated, agreed participants of Friday’s online debate hosted by the office of the European Parliament in Slovenia. Currently, the EU has high hopes of Covid-19 vaccines but is faced with problems in their supply, they said.

Epidemiologist Fafangel Delo’s person of the year

Published by The Slovenia Times on Fri, 01/08/2021 - 07:16

Ljubljana – Mario Fafangel, the head of the Centre for Communicable Diseases at the National Institute of Public Health (NIJZ), was declared the Person of the Year 2020 by the newspaper publisher Delo at an online event on Thursday evening. He was labelled the leading epidemiologist “showing us the way in the restless sea of the epidemic”.