Public health

The National Public Health organisations today announced 105 COVID-19 deaths and 7,287 newly confirmed infections in the last 24 hours.

Greece has recorded 886,207 COVID-19 infections since the start of the pandemic (daily increase of 0.8 percent), of which 50.6 percent involved men.

The cases of Covid have increased over the past two weeks

Ljubljana – Slovenia confirmed 3,232 new cases of coronavirus on Friday, down more than a tenth over the week before as the epidemic plateaus at a high level. The positivity rate remained high at almost 40%, level on the week before, and 22 patients with Covid-19 died.

The new cases of coronavirus in Bulgaria for the last 24 hours are 2737, the deaths with a diagnosis of Covid-19 are 139, and the cured ones - 3138. This is the data from the Unified Information Portal.

783 new hospital admissions are infected. The total number of hospitalized is now 7,276, of which 767 are in intensive care.

Wearing a mask is the most effective measure to protect public health from the coronavirus, reducing the incidence by 53%. This shows the latest international study on the effectiveness of this product.

Those who have had COVID again cannot renew their European certificate if the first one has expired because the system does not generate a document for the second infection.

Ljubljana – Slovenia saw another 1,815 people test positive for coronavirus on Sunday as cases kept climbing week-on-week and over half of the PCR tests came back positive. Official figures also show hospitalisations passing the one thousand mark and another eleven Covid-19 patients loosing their lives.

Ljubljana – A total of 2,365 new cases of coronavirus were recorded in Slovenia on Saturday, which is a slight increase week-on-week, with the positivity rate standing at 44.3%, the National Institute for Public Health (NIJZ) announced. Hospitalisations at intensive care units reached a new record and 21 people died of Covid-19 yesterday.

Ljubljana – As many as 3,666 new coronavirus cases were detected in Slovenia on Friday for a 39.8% positivity rate, slightly up from Thursday’s 37.6%, shows data released by the National Institute of Public Health (NIJZ) on Saturday. The number of Covid patients in intensive care hit a record 225 since the start of the epidemic in March 2020.

With the COVID-19 epidemic raging throughout the country, Education Minister Niki Kerameus has denied reports that, "The education ministry is threshing out a 'bombshell scenario' for closing schools on 15 November in order to stem the large wave of COVID-19 spread to children."