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0"> Estonia's first COVID-19 vaccine was given to resident-doctor Jelena Rozinko in Kohtla-Järve in Ida-Viru County on December 27. Source: Sergei Stepanov/ERR The inoculation of Ida-Viru County's elderly against the coronavirus is progressing very poorly and family physicians have said there is no major breakthrough to be expected because older people fear vaccines more than they do the coronavirus. Large-scale vaccination drives, which brought hundreds of vaccine applicants to Narva Hospital may have left the impression of Ida-Viru County's vaccination coverage improvi...

Last week 2,604 new cases of coronavirus were diagnosed across Estonia falling from 3,341 the previous week. There were 45 deaths. ERR News has rounded up the most important news and data about the coronavirus in Estonia from the last week and put it in one place. This round-up is usually published on Monday or Tuesday, because the results for Sunday of the previous week are released on Monday morning, only making it possible to analyze the previous week's results after the data has been reported. You can find the following graphs below: The total number of new cases diagnosed by week; New ca...

390 new cases of coronavirus were recorded in the last 24 hours, the Health Board (Terviseamet) said on Saturday.

Registered unemployment rose from 5.8 percent to 8.7 percent on year to the end of the first quarter of 2021 (Q1 2021), particularly in more rural counties, which have been hit hard by the ongoing economic effects of the pandemic even if their reported coronavirus rates are not as high as other areas. Women, too, have been hit more heavily then men in terms of job losses, ERR reports, with 52.2 percent of registered unemployed at the end of Q1 2021 being women compared with 47.8 percent men. At the same time in 2020, shortly after the coronavirus arrived in Estonia, the respective figures wer...

301 cases were recorded in Harju County and 243 cases were in Tallinn. Sixty-one cases were reported in Ida-Viru County, 44 in Lääne-Viru County, 29 in Tartu County, 25 in Viljandi County, 22 in Pärnu County, nine in Põlva County and eight in Saare County.  There were six cases in Järva County, five each in Võru and Valga counties, three each in Rapla, Lääne and Jõgeva Counties, and one new case in Hiiu County. Eleven cases had no information in the population register. In total, 5,800 tests were analyzed which gives a positive share of 9.2 percent. The 14-day infection rate is 574...