Pandemic

In an interview for BTA, Institute for Market Economics (IME) senior economist Petar Ganev forecasts that in a good-case scenario, if in the summer Bulgaria has made significant progress with the COVID-19 vaccination campaign, thus removing concerns over a new shutdown of the economy in autumn, the country's GDP could grow by some 3 per cent in 2021 and even by 4 to 5 per cent in 2022.

The fastest route to political acrimony is usually panic. And the coronavirus pandemic has contained all the ingredients needed to tip decision makers into a state of panic. The ferocity and unpredictability of the pandemic has made the distinction between populists and moderates irrelevant.

 Emergency doctors are pushing for the measures to be tightened, as they say the number of those infected is increasing and precautions are being largely ignored.

In the hospitals the situation is dynamic and the data on the occupied beds change quickly, so again the ambulances have to go around hospitals, commented to Nova TV Dr. Desislava Katelieva from the emergency department.

Chris Murray, a University of Washington disease expert whose projections on COVID-19 infections and deaths are closely followed worldwide, is changing his assumptions about the course of the pandemic

It is unrealistic to think the world will be done with the COVID-19 pandemic by the end of the year, the World Health Organization warned on March 1.

WHO emergencies director Michael Ryan said it might however be possible to take the tragedy out of the coronavirus crisis by reducing hospitalizations and deaths.

The Finnish government declared a state of emergency on Monday due to rising COVID-19 infections, a step that would allow the Nordic country to shutter restaurants and to impose other measures to blunt the pandemic.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, 1,341 patients have been discharged from the ICU

The number of hospitalized persons is 3.912, of which 162 are on a respirator.
10.368 people were tested.
A total of 459.259 positive cases have been registered since the outbreak of the pandemic.
The mortality rate is 0.97 percent.

A number of 63 people infected with SARS-CoV-2 have died in the last 24 hours, according to data the Strategic Communication Group (GCS) released on Sunday.

We enter 2021, hoping to put the COVID-19 pandemic behind us. While each society has dealt with it uniquely, global diplomacy will nevertheless focus on common concerns and shared lessons. Much of that revolves around the nature of globalization.