About 150.000 cases of covid-19 are active in Greece, and in the past seven days the number of deaths has increased, by an average of 100 per day, said the MIA correspondent from Athens.

Professor Vana Papaevangelou, who is also a member of the commission of epidemiologists at the Greek Ministry of Health, said that the number of active cases has not decreased further in the past week and is still around 150.000, and for the number of newly infected, explained that the average is 18.000 cases. daily, adding that due to the snowstorm and given that the work and social activities of the citizens were completely interrupted, new cases are expected to decrease in the coming days.

If we analyze the official data from the National Organization for Public Health of Greece, there is an increase in the number of deaths, and in the period from 21 to 27 January, 701 deaths were registered from Covid-19, and yesterday a new negative record for 2022 was registered. year with 115 dead in 24 hours.

Regarding omicron, Professor Papaevangelou said that "while omicron hospitalizations accounted for only 40 percent of new hospital admissions at the beginning of the month, today eight out of ten patients admitted to hospital are on omicron."

- The disease caused by the omicron variant of the coronavirus is not a common cold. That is why some of our fellow citizens, especially the unvaccinated elderly citizens, will be seriously ill and will have to be treated, but they will also be in danger, said Papaevangelou.

About 5.000 people across Greece have been hospitalized for covid-19, and 85 percent of the beds in intensive care units in Greek hospitals have been filled.

The epidemiological situation in Srbiјa is worrying, the omicron is spreading, for two weeks the number of infected people has reached five digits, and the number of deaths is increasing, said the MIA correspondent from Belgrade.

In the last 24 hours, according to the Serbian Ministry of Health, 17.284 cases of coronavirus infection were registered out of 34.778 tested samples, and as a result of the infection another 42 people died. There are 3.397 patients in hospitals, of which 143 are on a respirator.

Hospitals are returning to the coyote regime, such as the CBC "Dr. Dragisa Misovic" which has re-entered the red zone.

The condition of the pandemic is worrying, and the number of patients who are positive for covidium is affected by mutations and faster spread of the virus, past holidays and winter vacations, said a pneumophthisiologist from the City Institute for Lung Diseases and Tuberculosis in Belgrade. Katarina Mijatovi..

"Antibiotic treatment on its own is a phenomenon that makes it difficult to treat covid positive patients," said Dr. Mijatovic, because it can "mask" the clinical picture, and some symptoms may temporarily become "invisible". In addition, viral infections are not treated with antibiotics, said Dr. Mijatovic.

The school team from the Crisis Staff today decided from Monday, January 31, students from first to fourth grade in primary schools to directly attend classes, while students from fifth to eighth grade to follow the educational work according to a combined model and go to school day by day, divided into two groups. It has also been decided for the high school students to teach according to a combined model.

At the end of this week in France a new record of closed classes has been set. The Ministry of Education announced that 21.049 classes were closed, said the MIA correspondent from Paris.

That represents 3,99 per cent of the country's 527.200 classes. This is a new record, which significantly exceeds the previous one, recorded on January 20 (18.786). This figure includes classes that have been closed due to Covid-19 cases and those that have been closed due to irreplaceable teacher absences. On the other hand, the number of closed schools is decreasing. The ministry said 102, up from 152 last week. 97 schools are closed until the fifth grade.

Regarding the number of positive cases, in the period from January 20 to 27, 572.072 students were positive compared to 463.197 between January 14 and 20. In terms of staff, 35.558 cases were registered in one week (30.774 in the previous week). These figures have been rising since early January. On January 6, for example, the Ministry recorded 47.453 cases of contamination reported among students and 5.631 cases among staff during the first four days of the school year.

Senior students in Poland return to distance learning after the country announced a record rise in cases of newly infected with the coronavirus, for the second day in a row.

In the past 24 hours, the number of patients has increased by 57.659, said the Ministry of Health. In the same period in Poland, which has a population of 38 million, 262 people died.

The Ministry of Education has ordered fifth-graders and upper-class students to stay home. The initially envisaged duration of the measure is one month.

Polish authoritieshave also started providing free coronavirus tests. So far, there are 64 pharmacies across the country that citizens can use, said Minister of Health Adam Nedzelski; there are other facilities that are currently applying for a permit to carry out such activities.

Finland will begin to gradually ease the restrictions imposed by Covid-19 on February 1 instead of mid-February, as originally planned, amid a marked unloading of the hospital system, the government said.

The number of confirmed cases of coronavirus infection in the world exceeded 360 million, and the number of deaths - 5,62 million, said World Health Organization. According to the data published so far, 360.578.392 have been registered infected and 5.620.865 dead.

In the past 24 hours, the number of patients has increased by 3.395.352, and the number of deaths by 10.176. A record for the entire period of the Covid-19 pandemic was registered on January 26, when 24 new infections were identified in 3.962.990 hours. WHO statistics take into account only officially confirmed information on infected and dead people provided by countries.

САД have most confirmed cases - 71.812.665, then India (40.371.500) Brazil (24.311.317) France (17.252.793) and great Britain (16.149.323). The United States reported the highest number of deaths - 866.039, followed by Brazil (623.843) and India (491.700), Russia (328.770) and Mexico (303.776).