Pandemic

Bulgaria's Minister of Health Prof. Kostadin Angelov, the Chairman of the National Task force against the spread of coronavirus, Major General Dr. Ventsislav Mutafchyiski and the Executive Director of Pirogov emergency hospital Prof. Asen Baltov presented the national plan of Bulgaria for pandemic preparedness, which was adopted at the weekly government meeting on December 2.

Orsinger was positive for COVID-19 for the first time back in February.
"In February, my mother was admitted to Sondalo Hospital, and the doctor at the hospital told us that she had never met someone so old that contracted the coronavirus that way. She was breathing on her own and did not have a fever," says her daughter Carla.

"Don't you love being alive?" "Don't you love weather and the colors... and all the sounds and noises like children screaming in the next lot, and automobile horns and little bands playing in the street and the smell of food cooking?" asks one of the characters in Katherine Anne Porter's "Pale Horse, Pale Rider," a story on surviving the 1918 flu pandemic.

President Klaus Iohannis said today that the coronavirus testing capacity remained unchanged this month at around 50,000 tests a day, because the upper limit has been reached, and that the limitation is doubled by the lack of equipment and specialized personnel.

Over 4 million people contracted the novel coronavirus infection worldwide in the past seven days, which is the highest-ever weekly growth in cases since the start of the pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.

The number of fatalities increased by more than 67,000 all over the world, the global organization said.

The Social Democratic Party (PSD) candidate for the Chamber of Deputies, Professor Dr. Alexandru Rafila, member of the WHO Executive Committee, said on Tuesday in southern Ploiesti that the number of tests has started to drop "quite a lot", and the Public Health Directorates (DSP) are not "encouraged" to investigate all outbreaks.

Consumer spending on services is still more than 6 percent off pre-pandemic levels

Two more people died from Covid-19 in Greece on Thursday, raising the overall number to 218, according to a report on Skai TV.

The first victim was an 87-year-old man who was being treated in a hospital in Halkidiki and the second was an 82-year-old man with underlying medical conditions.

New SARS-CoV-2 infections recorded a fresh record on Wednesday with health authorities announcing 262 new cases, fueling concerns about the course of the pandemic.

The National Organization of Public Health (EODY) said that 22 of the cases were imported infections detected at the country's entry points. The total number of infections has reached 6,177. 

New SARS-CoV-2 infections recorded a fresh record in the past 24 hours  in Greece as health authorities announced 262 new cases on Wednesday, fuelling concerns about the course of the pandemic.