27. 1. 2021
Today’s press conference on the current situation regarding COVID-19 was attended by Nuška Čakš Jager, Deputy Head of the Centre for Communicable Diseases at the National Institute of Public Health, and Tjaša Žohar Čretnik, Director of the National Laboratory of Health, Environment and Food. Deputy Head of the Centre for Communicable Diseases at the National Institute of Public Health Nuška Čakš Jager |
Author Daniel Novaković, STA
With 5,418 PCR tests performed yesterday, 1,430 were positive, which amounts to 26.4 per cent. With 10,528 rapid antigen tests, 420 were positive, which is almost 4 per cent. The total number of tests amounts to 15,964, of which 1,850 were positive, i.e. almost 200 more than on Monday. Some 1,144 patients were in hospitals yesterday (1,157 on Monday), of whom 172 required intensive care, 20 fewer than a day before. Some 19 people have died in hospitals. The average of confirmed cases in the last seven days at th
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As Mexico’s official Covid-19 case tally approaches 2 million and the death toll continues to climb at a rapid pace after passing 150,000 this week, coronavirus czar Hugo López-Gatell on Wednesday committed to evaluating the national pandemic strategy with a view to improving it.
The deputy health minister made the pledge at a virtual forum at which a compilation of papers entitled
Reflections on Mexico’s Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic and Suggestions to Face the Coming Years was presented.
Containing observations from 38 medical experts who attended a November coronavirus seminar organized by the National Institute of Public Health, the compilation proposes a range of government actions and measures to bring Mexico’s coronavirus pandemic under control and reduce the number of Covid-19 deaths.
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New variants of the coronavirus are constantly emerging. The varieties that have the greatest dispersal ability, ie the highest R-number, will eventually dominate. Since such variants spread better, more effective measures are required to keep them under control, explains department director Line Vold.
The outbreak in Nordre Follo is the first thing we know about the UK variant in Norway, says Vold.
Nordre Follo municipality and the National Institute of Public Health have collaborated to solve the outbreak. The outbreak at the nursing home must have started in Christmas, but is now, so to speak, over. From the nursing home, there has been a spread to a kindergarten in the municipality and to a nursing home in Oslo. There is also a possible connection with outbreaks at a health station and school in the municipality. There are also some other infected people where the link is being investigated. The further outbreak investigation is in full swing.
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Her Majesty Margareta, Custodian of the Romanian Crown, has become the latest royal to receive the vaccine against the coronavirus. Her Majesty received the vaccine together with her husband, Prince Radu of Romania.
Their vaccination took place on January 25th 2021 in a private hospital in Romania. The news was published in a short statement from the Romanian Royal Court on Twitter. The message reads:
“Today, Her Majesty Margareta and His Royal Highness Prince Radu were vaccinated against COVID-19. Her Majesty and His Royal Highness received the first dose of the vaccine at the hospital of the “Regina Maria” Private Health Network in Cluj-Napoca.”
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The National COVID-19 Vaccination Coordination Committee on Monday reported that in the last 24 hours 38,346 people have been immunised in Romania according to data provided by the National Institute of Public Health via the National Electronic Register of Vaccinations.
Of the people vaccinated in the last 24 hours, 26,438 received one dose and 11,908 vaccinated two doses.
So far, 459,567 people have been vaccinated in the country. Of these, 434,503 received one dose and 25,064 received two doses.
In those vaccinated in the last 24 hours, 39 common and minor reactions occurred of which six local reactions and 33 general reactions.
Since December 27, 2020, 1,213 common and minor reactions were reported at the vaccination centres in Romania, of which 377 local reactions, namely pain at the injection site, 836 general reactions - fever, headache, myalgia, arthralgia, asthenia, and hives.