Influenza vaccine

We are following with concern the fact that the chronically ill and the elderly are ranked further in the vaccination plan. This was stated to BNR by Dr. Stanimir Hasardjiev, chairman of the National Patient Organization.

Ljubljana – Voluntary mass vaccination against Covid-19 started in Slovenia on Sunday, a day after the first 9,750 doses of the vaccine arrived in the country. The first to get vaccinated were elderly at care homes who have not yet been infected, followed by some care home and hospital staff.

"According to the plan that has been made, the most endangered are clearly defined - they are health workers, then all those who are employed in nursing homes, and then the users of nursing homes themselves," Kon said.
He said that now there is a coordination team for immunization.

There is growing concern over a new strain of the coronavirus that's been detected in the United Kingdom. Health experts say it could be more contagious.

As a result, many countries in Europe are cutting off travel and trade to the United Kingdom. Here at home, a local doctor says while we should pay attention to this new strain, we should not panic.

"The number of new cases of COVID-19 and mortality do not decrease at the expected rate after the introduction of new measures because there is a hidden morbidity. There are infected people who prefer not to be examined, do not allow us to register them - to quarantine them and their relatives," said Director of "Pirogov" emergency hospital Prof. Asen Baltov on bTV this morning.

A Greek doctor who was among the first frontline health workers to receive the coronavirus vaccination in the United Kingdom last week urged the public on Saturday to set aside fears of possible side effects.

According to him, the plan is for two to four million people in Serbia to receive the vaccine.
That means, according to Kurir, for which Dr Djerlek gave an interview, that in the best case scenario, in the middle of 2022, we will return to normal life, without masks and keeping distance.

Ljubljana – Slovenia has been promised to get some 5,000 doses of anti-coronavirus vaccine by the end of the year, Health Minister Tomaž Gantar told MPs in questions time in parliament on Monday. This is the vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, which is expected to be green-lighted by the European Medicines Agency on 29 December.

Citizens won't get to pick the vaccine they want to protect them against Covid-19, according to Deputy Health Minister Vassilis Kontozamanis.

"Citizens will not choose which vaccine they will have for the coronavirus, just as they do not choose for the flu," he said.

The first question that arose, as he said for TV Prva, is who will be vaccinated at all, because it is not known how many people have had coronavirus as asymptomatic cases.