According to a statement by Maria Theodoridou at an official briefing by the Ministry of Health, held on Monday July 19, the chances of contracting the Delta strain in those vaccinated against the coronavirus are small, but real. Maria Teodoridou stressed that 90% of those hospitalized in intensive care units and in critical condition are […]
EODY has sounded the alarm over the rate of transmission of the Delta mutation in the country, and there will be emergency government announcements in the afternoon, according to the information. EODY will publish a report with the latest data from the National Coronavirus Genomic Surveillance Network, but also strains, as the Delta mutation appears […]
The Belgian old woman died from the simultaneous aggression of two variants of the coronavirus – South African and British. According to Agence France-Presse today, a 90-year-old resident of the city of Aalste (East Flanria) was hospitalized in March with COVID-19. Within five days, despite the treatment, the woman’s condition rapidly deteriorated, and the disease […]
Even before we survive the wave of the super-infectious Delta mutation, another strain, the next coronavirus mutation, is causing shock to scientists. This is the Epsilon (E) mutation, which is under the scrutiny of Swiss and American scientists who published a recent study. It was first discovered at the end of 2020 in California and […]
The incidence of coronavirus in the country is increasing, while there is an increase in the number of cases of the Delta mutation. Yesterday, 8 July, 2,108 new cases of coronavirus were announced. At the same time, Vana Papaevangelu, a professor of childhood infectious diseases and a member of the expert committee, noted during a […]
“The decline in cases seen in recent weeks has now stalled,” government spokeswoman Aristotelia Peloni said, referring to the epidemiological situation and vaccinations in Greece. “The emergence of the D mutation, which is expected to prevail in Europe in the coming weeks, is a matter of concern. However, it is extremely important that the effectiveness […]
The approved vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus have proven to be very effective in fighting the pandemic, but were developed early, before new strains were introduced. Some of these strains have the ability to overcome the immunity afforded by vaccines. The doctors of the Therapeutic Clinic of the Kapodistrian National University of Athens Theodore Psaltopoulou, […]
“We must hurry!” – this is the message of the scientific community in the middle of summer, an appeal to citizens who have not yet been vaccinated. “We must take advantage of this time slot to vaccinate those who have not yet done so,” said Athanasios Exadaktylos, president of the Panhellenic Medical Association, shortly after […]
“We went beyond just discussing the Delta mutation. The virus is spreading rapidly on a global scale and something urgently needs to be done about it, ”said Charalambos Gogos, professor of pathology and infectious diseases at the University of Patras and a member of the scientific committee of the Ministry of Health. “There are special […]