Flu pandemic in Europe

23 are the confirmed cases of infection with Covid-19 in Bulgaria over the last 24 hours, with 409 tests performed, according to the data of the Unified Information Portal.

One infected person died. There are 235 infected in hospitals, of which 30 are in intensive care units.

1437 are the confirmed COVID-19 cases in Bulgaria with proven. 38 new positive samples were proven in the last day.

The active cases are 1134.

6 more children are infected. 243 people have recovered, which is 17% of all cases.

there are 3 new death cases. 287 people are hospitalized 39 of which are in intensive care.

The share of COVID-19 imported cases is "continuously decreasing," while infections are at a local spreading stage, and there is no extended epidemic yet, concludes the National Public Health Institute (INSP) in a recent study of confirmed novel coronavirus cases between February 26 and April 5. "The share of imported cases is constantly decreasing.

Tuesday saw another death of an 82-year-old man who had contracted coronavirus, while 32 more tested positive, raising the total confirmed cases in the Republic of Cyprus to 262.

A new case was also confirmed on Tuesday in the north, where total cases reached 70 and fatalities remained stable at one.

Over 1 million eggs will be pulled out of the market due to outbreaks of bird flu in Bulgaria. This is necessary in order not to spread the disease. However, it is not dangerous for the health of the people, Minister of Agriculture Rumen Porozhanov told BNT this morning.

Eight people diagnosed with swine flu have died in Turkey, Health Minister Mehmet Müezzino?lu has said, amid a rise in viral infections over the past 10 days.

"The number of patients who have died after being diagnosed with the H1N1 virus is eight," Müezzino?lu said, answering parliamentary questions on Jan. 5. 

A total of five patients with swine flu-like symptoms have died in the first week of 2016 in two Turkish provinces, as authorities have urged for calm, stressing the definitive causes of death were yet to be determined. 

BELGRADE - Twenty-eight deaths that can be associated with the flu have been reported in Serbia so far, Dragana Dimitrijevic, the national flu coordinator at the Dr Milan Jovanovic Batut Public Health Institute, said on Wednesday.

Dimitrijevic said that 86 percent of the patients who died had a chronic disease or a risk factor, and that 21 of them were over 55 years of age.

Health Minister Mehmet Müezzino?lu said on March 21 a total of 360 patients out of more than 4,300 samples have tested positive for swine flu, also known as H1N1.

"A total of 360 patients tested positive for H1N1," said Müezzino?lu, adding the ministry has been closely monitoring developments regarding the virus.

A 53-year-old woman died from the H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu, in the western province of Kocaeli on March 15, raising concerns over the increasing number of dangerous flu cases in the country.
 
The woman, identified as Güler Akba?, was receiving treatment at Farabi State Hospital after being hospitalized on March 13 due to fever.