Screening for covid-19 continues in primary and secondary schools, and so far no positive cases have been detected. Since the beginning of the pandemic, more than 19 citizens have died from covid-7000 in the country. 46 percent of the adult population has been revaccinated, and in the battle against covid-19, the Ministry of Health will procure the drug “Molnupiravir”.
– Screening for covid-19, which is carried out in primary and secondary schools, did not reveal any child positive for the coronavirus, said yesterday the Minister of Health Venko Filipce. He said about 500 students would be tested by the end of the week.
Covid-19 screening is performed in order to detect asymptomatic carriers of the virus among students and to get a complete picture of its transmission in schools. It should cover about 8000 students.
– The coverage with vaccination with one dose of vaccine is 57% of the adult population, and with two doses it covers 46% of the citizens over 18 years old. According to the number of applied vaccines, 38% of the entire population in our country is vaccinated, and 35% of the population in the country received two doses of vaccine, according to the Ministry of Health.
They also said that the Ministry of Health would procure the only drug against covid-19, “Molnupiravir”.The Ministry points out that they have proactively contacted the manufacturer of the drug, the company MSD, and negotiations for its procurement will begin soon. Molonupiravir is in tablet form and can be taken by all patients who are positive for covid-19. The drug is given in the first five days after diagnosis of the virus, and previous clinical trials show that hospitalization with this drug is reduced by 50 percent, according to the Ministry.
– The drug and the vaccine against covid-19 can not be compared. Coronavirus vaccines prevent severe forms of the disease, hospitalization complications, or death. The covid-19 virus mutates rapidly and vaccines are most effective, with the goal of achieving collective immunity to protect themselves against new strains of SarsCoV2, the ministry said.
At the next meeting, the Commission on Infectious Diseases will discuss the measure of the need to receive two doses of vaccine against covid-19.The Minister of Health said yesterday that the percentage of patients who are not vaccinated is huge and now the virus is spreading significantly among unvaccinated citizens.
– Unfortunately, the interest for vaccination has significantly decreased. We have reached 800 thousand citizens who have been vaccinated with at least one dose, of which 760 have been revaccinated, but the high percentage proves that the hospitals are filled only by unvaccinated citizens, said Filipce.
So far, 243 million people worldwide have been infected with the coronavirus, about five million people have died and more than 220 million patients have recovered.Russia yesterday reported cases of infection with a new variant of the coronavirus, which is believed to be more contagious than Delta due to a record increase in the number of infected and dead. This forced the Moscow authorities to re-introduce more restrictive sanitary measures, reports Radio Free Europe.It is possible that the AY.4.2 variant will be widely extended, said Kamil Kafizov, a researcher at Russian health supervisor Rospotrebnadzor.The World Health Organization said yesterday that the Covid-19 pandemic would last a year longer because poorer countries were not getting the vaccines they needed.WHO’s Dr Bruce Eylward said this meant the Covid-19 crisis could “easily extend deep into 2022”.The World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday that 80 to 000 health workers worldwide may have died of covidium-180 by May this year, insisting they should be vaccinated as a matter of priority.
“A new WHO working document estimates that between 80 and 000 health care workers and nursing home staff may have died from covid-180 between January 000 and May 19,” the UN health agency said in a statement.
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) will decide whether to approve Sputnik V, a Russian vaccine against the coronavirus, in the first quarter of 2022 at the earliest, as there is still insufficient data.
– The decision of EMA by the end of the year is now completely impossible, said the source familiar with the issue.
The poorest countries received only 14 percent of the promised Covid-19 vaccines. The National Vaccine Association’s analysis of “Reality Dose: How Rich Countries and Pharmaceutical Companies Are Breaking Vaccine Promises” states that 261 million covid-19 vaccines have been delivered to the poorest countries, which is only 14 percent of the 1,8 billion doses, as promised by rich countries.
“Almost a year since the vaccine became available, in the poorest parts of the world, 1,3 percent of the population has been completely vaccinated with two doses,” the analysis said.
Source: MIA
