Influenza vaccine

Ljubljana – The National Institute of Public Health (NIJZ) has ordered 360,000 doses of flu vaccine for this season, which is more than last year, when demand exceeded expectation. It is not clear yet whether the vaccine will be available for free this year as well. Flu vaccination usually starts in October.

The professor of Pulmonology and Intensive Care, Theodoros Vasilakopoulos, made the nightmarish estimate that if the vaccinations do not proceed, 4 million people will need to get sick in order to achieve herd immunity.

"My position is that it should have been difficult to prevent it, considering how we live in the 21st century," said the director of the Office of the World Health Organization in Serbia, Marija Ivanua.
According to him, at the outbreak of the pandemic, some countries failed to establish a system of preventive measures.

Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, National Liberal Party (PNL) leader Ludovic Orban declared on Monday in Pitesti (northwest of Bucharest) that the COVID-19 vaccination could be conducted for a charge in the future, based on the influenza vaccination model.

One-fifth of adult Bulgarians declare a definite intent to receive a vaccine against COVID-19, show the data from the national representative face-to-face survey conducted by "Exacta Research Group" among 1,005 adults in 90 settlements between 15-22 February 2021.

Scientists look for safety issues during the testing phase and continue their monitoring as shots roll out around the world. So far, the only serious warning to emerge is a rare risk of severe allergic reactions.

The Turkish public has grown more pessimistic about a return to normalcy, with only around 20 percent believing that the COVID-19 outbreak would be over within a year, a survey commissioned by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has shown.

We haven't received any instructions as to what we're going to do with people who fall into specific groups, said head of the general practitioners association in Sofia region Dr. Viktoria Chobanova before the morning program of bTV.

Despite delays in the supply of vaccines on a European Union level, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Saturday that Greece's vaccination campaign is proceeding as planned and in accordance with the priorities set by the National Vaccination Committee.

A northern Kentucky couple celebrated their 73rd wedding anniversary by getting their first coronavirus vaccine shot.

Noel "Gene" Record, 93, and Virginia Record, 91, were among the first patients in Cincinnati to be vaccinated on Jan. 19 under Ohio's Phase 1B, WLWT-TV reported. Initial vaccinations went to health care workers.