Booster dose

With the number of weekly coronavirus infections, which was 26,635 last week, having surpassed 57,000, experts once again warn citizens to get their booster shots if six to eight months have passed since the final dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.

Tomorrow, May 3, the students return to schools, without having conducted a Covid-19 test, but with the obligation of using a mask.

Speaking to SKAI channel, the Deputy Health Minister, Ms Mina Gaga, said that Greece has achieved a satisfactory vaccination rate, so there is no fear of children returning to school.

For the last 24 hours, 886 new cases of coronavirus have been registered in Bulgaria, according to data from the Unified Information Portal. The tests performed during this time were 13,175 (6.7 percent positive).

More than 85 percent of the adult population in Turkey has been double jabbed and it is a "significant success," Health Minister Fahrettin Koca has said.

Nearly 53 million people aged 18 and above have been given two doses of the vaccine against COVID-19, according to data from the Health Ministry.

2,903 are the new cases of coronavirus for the past day. 24,216 tests were performed, of which 5,234 PCR and 18,982 antigenic. Most positive results were reported in the capital - 697, in Varna they are 423, in Burgas 247, and in Plovdiv 218.

The new cases of coronavirus in our country are 6589, and the death toll for the last 24 hours is 95, according to the data in the Unified Information Portal.

The tests performed for the past 24 hours are 28,986 (22.7 percent positive).

The Greek Ministry of Health has announced that about 10,000 medics who have not received a booster dose of COVID-19 vaccine will have to take two rapid tests a week to work. This will be at their expense, Kathimerini reported.

Health Minister Thanos Plevris clarified that health workers who do not have a booster will not be removed, as is the case with the unvaccinated.

About a third of the European population has not yet been vaccinated against COVID-19, and Bulgaria ranks last in this indicator. This was said online to journalists by Andrea Ammon, director of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control, quoted by BTA.

Health Minister Fahrettin Koca has called on the public to avoid complacency and believing that the Omicron variant of COVID-19 causes a milder disease, urging everyone to get their booster shots.

"We are fighting a variant of the virus that spreads rapidly and causes a milder course of the disease. This should not be passed onto you as complacency," Koca said on Twitter.

"There is hope and light - the end of the fifth wave of the coronavirus is visible", said the director of the National Center for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases Iva Hristova.