Vaccinia

Greece has initiated its monkeypox vaccination campaign as of July 22, according to an announcement by Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis. This action follows the World Health Organization's (WHO) declaration that the spread of monkeypox is a public health emergency of international concern.

As the lone laboratory manufacturing a licensed vaccine against monkeypox, Danish company Bavarian Nordic has seen its order book fill up as the usually rare disease spreads around the world.

Coronavirus in all its strains causes increased blood clotting, which damages the lungs and all organs in general. More and more patients are blinded by the virus, said to BTV the head of the Clinic of Ophthalmology at Alexandrovska Hospital, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Alexander Oscar.

Most people hoped that over time - and given scientific progress, vaccines, and medicines that are being developed - the pandemic would be checked and become an endemic seasonal disease like the flu.

Yet, a series of factors and conditions, in Greece and around the world, dashed those hopes.

Bulgaria is in for very serious problems if vaccination rate in the county stays at 20%, said Chief State Health Inspector Dr. Angel Kunchev on bTV.

Expectations for a decline in COVID-19 cases did not materialize over the weekend, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca has said, repeating calls for the public to get vaccinated against the virus.

On Aug. 21 and Aug. 22, Turkey registered 19,351 and 18,622 cases respectively, a slight decline from the previous days last week.

Bulgaria is now in the midst of the fourth Covid-19 wave. Measures against the spread of the virus will be introduced at national level and will not differ from those applied during previous waves. The scope of the restrictions is also linked to the implementation of economic measures to support the affected businesses, Bulgaria's Chief State Health Inspector Assoc. Prof.