Pandemic

Turkey has detected two cases of South African variant and one case of the Brazilian variant of COVID-19, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca has announced.

The number of cases related to the U.K variant of the coronavirus has increased to 196, Koca said following the Health Ministry's Science Board meeting on Feb. 3, warning that daily infections are on the rise again.

The personnel employed by Greece's public health sector have shouldered most of the burden since the coronavirus pandemic hit the country last March, often mobilizing bottomless wells of self-denial. 

They are, however, civil servants. This means that they need to align with the priorities of the state and with the public interest. 

11.960 people were tested, 2.652.095 since the outbreak of the pandemic.
The number of patients on hospital treatment is 4.002, and there are now 153 people on respirators.
The total number of registered cases amounts to 400.837.
Since the outbreak of the pandemic, 4.071 people have died from COVID-19 in Serbia.

"We have to be careful"

Global coronavirus cases surpassed 100 million on Wednesday, according to a Reuters tally, as countries around the world struggle with new virus variants and vaccine shortfalls. 

Almost 1.3% of the world's population has now been infected with COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, and more than 2.1 million people have died.

The European Union's executive body proposed Monday that the bloc's 27 nations impose more travel restrictions to counter the worrying spread of new coronavirus variants but make sure to keep goods and workers moving across EU borders.

The coronavirus strain that has swept Britain and beyond in recent months could be more deadly as well as more transmissible, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Jan. 22. 

The sobering news came as the U.K. sees record deaths from Covid-19, following a surge in cases and hospitalizations since the variant was first identified in southeast England in September.

It has not been officially confirmed yet that the new strain of coronavirus  has already been detected in Bulgaria, said Prof. Asen Baltov, Director of Pirogov Emergency Hospital, quoted by BGNES

The South African strain, which, like the British strain, is more contagious than other strains of coronavirus, has appeared in 23 countries, according to the WHO report, reports the Guardian.
The mass distribution of vaccines in the United States and Europe has brought hope that the end of the pandemic is in sight.

Health experts in Greece said Tuesday that the latest epidemiological data indicates that the pandemic will not subside any further at this stage.

At the same time, health experts are also concluding that the festive season did not significantly affect the course of the pandemic.

 A new, highly transmissible variant of the coronavirus first discovered in Britain could become the dominant variant in the United States by March, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned on Friday.