Vaccine

The subvariant of the coronavirus: Omicron XBB.1.5, which in just a few weeks has become dominant in the United States, may cause a new wave, a representative of the World Health Organization told reporters.

The European Union has offered free Covid-19 vaccines to China, the EU executive said on Tuesday, as infections there surged following Beijing's relaxation of its "zero-Covid" policies.

The recent rate of spread of COVID-19 may lead to the emergence of new and vaccine-escapable variants, experts warn.

The number of COVID-19 cases have started to increase in Europe and Türkiye after China, India, South Korea and Japan in the last 10 days.

There were 593 new cases of COVID-19 registered in the last 24 hours, of which 60.2% were not vaccinated, the Unified Information Portal reported.

They were reported after 4,978 tests were performed, i.e. 12% of the tests were positive.

The EPPO didn’t specify who was being investigated, or which of the EU’s vaccine contracts are under scrutiny

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation says it will commit $1.2 billion to the effort to end polio worldwide. The money will be used to help implement the Global Polio Eradication Initiative's strategy through 2026. 

Vaccines to fight cancer will be widely available before 2030, say husband and wife Prof. Ugur Şahin and Prof. Özlem Tureçi, creators of one of the most successful vaccines against COVID-19, writes in the New York Times.

Lessons learned from the pandemic will accelerate cancer treatments based on mRNA technology, they say.

In the last 24 hours, 5,258 tests for COVID-19 were performed, and 783 new cases were detected in Bulgaria, according to data from the Unified Information Portal.

This means that the share of positive results is 14.9%.

58.37% of the new cases were not vaccinated.

Türkiye has reached a monthly capacity of 3 million in the production of Turkovac, Türkiye's domestically developed COVID-19 vaccine rolled out in December 2021, says Aykut Özdarendeli, a professor who led the production of the vaccine.

The new confirmed cases of coronavirus in Bulgaria for the last 24 hours are 685, according to the data of the Unified Information Portal.

5383 tests were done, which means that the share of positive results is 12.7 percent.

Four patients with confirmed coronavirus infection have died.