Viruses

The number of air passengers "at least halved" in March, when the novel coronavirus peaked, the 27-member-bloc's statistical office said on June 16.

Restrictive measures, to stem the spread of the COVID-19, affected the aviation sector deeply, Eurostat said.

In March, versus the same month 2019, the largest decline was seen in Italy by 85%, or 11.9 million.

2% of all Bulgarians have been already infected with the novel coronavirus. In other words, the theory of achieving herd immunity is inapplicable in this country, the Chief State Health Inspector Associate Professor Angel Kunchev said.

The Strategic Communication Group (GCS), the official novel coronavirus communication task force, reported on Monday that infections with the novel coronavirus have lately been following an upward trend, stressing that compliance with health standards by as many citizens as possible represents the only guarantee that the coronavirus lockdown relaxation measures taken so far can be maintained an

Greek health authorities say they have confirmed 13 new coronavirus cases in the country in the last 24 hours, which raises the total number to 3,134.
The death toll from Covid-19 has climbed to 184, as one more fatality was recorded in the past 24 hours.
Thirteen people remain intubated in intensive care units.

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The need for intensive care units (ICU) and ventilators are rising, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca has said after data showed that the number of new confirmed cases surpassed the number of recoveries in two days in a row.

"We are moving away from the target. Our weak point is unwary optimism. Let's be prudent optimist," the minister wrote on Twitter on June 14.

According to the latest data, there are 435.855 deaths from COVID-19 infection, and 4.134,874 people recovered from the infection.
The highest number of infected and dead people is in the USA - 2.162.228 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in that country, and 117.858 people have died.
The second is Brazil, where 867.882 people were infected and 43.389 people died.

In recent days, community transmission of the novel coronavirus has increased, but not in an "exponential" way," Health minister Tataru told private TV station Digi24 on Monday. "Remember we've had two big weekends in a row, Friday to Monday night. And we also had a population overcrowding in different areas of the country.

Of the 1409 samples tested in the last 24 hours, 24 gave a positive result. This is shown by the data in the National Information System.

The distribution by districts at the current address of the persons is as follows: Dobrich - 1; Kardzhali - 1; Lovech - 1; Plovdiv - 2; Smolyan - 1; Sofia region - 2; Sofia city - 3; Targovishte - 4; Shumen - 9.

Since the last report, samples of 1.802 people have been tested.
Since the beginning of the epidemic in Serbia, a total of 12.210 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed, and a total of 302.928 people who met the criteria for defining the case have been tested.
There are currently 533 active cases of coronavirus, while 15 patients are on a respirator.