The new proposed measures of the Commission for Infectious Diseases for unvaccinated public sector employees and health workers, as announced by the Minister of Health Venko Filipce, will be discussed today at the General Crisis Staff, and then at a Government session.
According to the proposed measures, all employees in the public sector, local self-government, all institutions for going to work should show confirmation of at least one vaccine or have a negative PCR test that will be valid for at least 72 hours, and will be made at your own expense . Those who have contracted the virus will submit a certificate of infection with Covid-19, not older than 45 days, and if they can not receive the vaccine, they will need to have a certificate from a specialist.
In addition, it is proposed that vaccination be mandatory for all health professionals, and the measures should take effect 10 days after the Government adopts them, so that citizens have time to be vaccinated and 30 days for health professionals who have not yet been vaccinated.
The recommendations are for private companies to join these measures, in order to protect the production capacities and the overall economic process in the country.
– We request to update the process for conducting control of health certificates, using the electronic tools of European certificates through an application that displays the correct QR code and controls its validity. This is a measure that we expect to significantly increase the scope of vaccination, said Minister Filipce when announcing the proposed measures and added that they follow the example of other countries in the region and Western Europe where measures are applied more and more restrictions for the unvaccinated.
The country currently has 470 Pfizer vaccines and 20 Astra Zeneka vaccines. 000 Pfizer vaccines are expected to arrive as a donation from Italy by the middle of next year.
According to the data published yesterday by the Institute of Public Health, during 2.633 tests, 389 new cases of Covid-19 were registered, 18 died and 317 recovered patients.
The number of active coyote cases in the country is 8.535 cases, most of which 3908 are in Skopje. The total number of Covid-diagnosed persons in the country since the beginning of the epidemic is 212.220, the number of recovered patients is 196.249, and the number of deaths is 7.436.
The situation with Covid-19 in the world does not subside. According to the data, more than 256.540 million cases of Covid-19 have been reported since the beginning of the pandemic. More than 5,1 million infected people died.
However, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), the real death toll could be two to three times higher. The registered number of coronavirus cases in the world is only part of the reality, Western media reported. With the increase in the available tests and the improvement of the methods for monitoring the contacts of the infected, the number of reported cases has generally increased. However, much milder and asymptomatic cases have not been reported. The vast majority of those infected with the coronavirus recover.
More than 478.000 new cases of coronavirus were reported worldwide yesterday. 6246 infected died. The highest death toll in the last 24 hours was in Russia (1252), followed by Poland (382) and Ukraine (377). The United States is the country hardest hit by the pandemic, with the most infected (47.701 million) and deaths (over 771.000). They are followed by Brazil (more than 612 thousand died from 22.012 million infected), India (over 465 thousand died from 34.510 million infected), Mexico (more than 292 thousand died from 3,8 million infected) and Russia (over 264 thousand died from 9,3, XNUMX million infected).
Peru ranks first in the number of deaths per 100.000 inhabitants (609). Followed by Bulgaria (390), Bosnia (372)…
By region, South America and the Caribbean are hardest hit (more than 1,5 million died out of 46.446 million infected). It is followed by Europe (more than 1,4 million deaths out of 80.774 million infected) and Asia (over 889 thousand deaths out of 56,7 million infected). The least affected region is Oceania (3.156 deaths out of almost 293 thousand infected).
The spread of the fifth wave of Covid-19 infection in France is “lightning fast”, Gabriel Atal, a spokesman for the French government, warned yesterday, but added that things should still be seen in a balanced way, because there are worrying and calming elements.
“This fifth wave started with lightning speed,” Atal said at a briefing.
According to the seven-day average, the number of infected has almost doubled, yesterday there were 17.153 newly infected, compared to 9.458 the previous Saturday. And that growth is exponential, before that it took three weeks for the number of infected daily to grow to the same extent.
Almost 75% of the total population is fully vaccinated in France. There were 7.974 people with Covid disease in French hospitals yesterday, of whom 1.333 were in intensive care, compared with 6.500, or 1.000 a month earlier.
The Minister of Health of the Republic of Serbia, Zlatibor Loncar, yesterday talked with the regional director of the company “Pfizer”, Muhamed Hamam, about the details of the signed contract for procurement of anti-coronavirus drug of that company, delivery dynamics and future and cooperation modalities. MIA from Belgrade. An experimental drug for the treatment of coronavirus, developed by the American company “Pfizer”, reduces the risk of hospitalization and death in patients whose health is already endangered by 89 percent, clinical trials have shown. This drug blocks the enzyme needed for the coronavirus to multiply, resulting in reduced mortality and hospitalization.
Source: MIA
