During the last 24 hours, Kosovo has registered 36 victims of COVID-19.

The mayor of Pristina, Shpend Ahmeti has reacted harshly demanding strict short-term measures in order to slow down COVID infection, and start mass vaccination to speed up protection against the COVID-19 virus.

“The difference between Kosovo and other countries with a similar number of infections is the percentage of vaccination. Strict short-term measures to slow down the infection and mass vaccination to speed up protection. There is no other way,” said Ahmeti’s reaction.

His full reaction:

36 – thirty-six. Fingers point later. Vaccination is our weakness. The difference between Kosovo and other countries with a similar number of infections is the percentage of vaccination.

None of the victims was fully vaccinated. But we still do not have enough vaccines, and we do not have enough will to be vaccinated. Leave the dialogue, visit everywhere in the friends who give us vaccines – Turkey e

Israel and any country that helps us.

Strict short-term measures to slow infection and mass vaccination to speed up protection. There is no other way.

We rent accounts later!

Kosovo is endangered by the “Delta” variant, as the trend of vaccination is not high, said in an interview with Ekonomia Online, Infectologist Ilir Tolaj.

“I think that Kosovo is in a more enviable situation due to the previous spread of the virus, ie an extremely percentage of the population have passed with or without symptoms and now vaccination which is being done despite being a little awkward in its aspect will to be positive even with the defense against this variant ”.

He said 60% of vaccinated persons should be reached.

Further, Tolaj said that vaccination is the only protection against the “Delta” variant and other variants that may arise in the future.

“If this trend accelerates by the end of the year, it is possible to reach this percentage. It would be much better for the highest percentage to be achieved even earlier. This period of calm in relation to the epidemiological situation with Covid should be used to vaccinate as many people as possible, as it is seen from the data from other countries that those who are infected with the Delta variant over 90% are unvaccinated and they who have not passed the infection, those who are being hospitalized over 90% are unvaccinated and those who are dying over 90% are those who have not been vaccinated and who have not passed the infection. “Vaccination is therefore the only protection against the Delta variant and other variants that may arise in the meantime.”

According to him, learning should continue because children are not attacked by the virus.

“The lesson must be held anyway. “Children are not a source of infection and are also not the main problem of transmission of the infection among the unvaccinated population and those who have not passed it,” said Tolaj.

It turns out that people who are infected with coronavirus have a specific smell that well-trained dogs can detect with very high precision, it is known that people have about five million receptors in the nose, and dogs up to 300 million.

Dr. Clara Guest has always been fascinated by dogs and their relationship with humans. After completing her studies in psychology, she worked on training dogs that were helpers for deaf people, where she met a woman who claimed that her Dalmatian had discovered that she had malignant melanoma.

In 2002, Gest teamed up with orthopedist John Church to investigate whether it was possible to train dogs to distinguish the urine of healthy people from those with bladder cancer. A study whose results were published in the British Medical Journal showed that they can.

The dog unit for medical diagnostics was established in 2008. This charity trains dogs who can detect changes in people with type one diabetes and other disorders that occur just before the condition worsens, and thus warn in time that medical treatment is necessary.

The organization also researches the ability of dogs to detect cancer and other diseases, including Parkinson’s disease. When the coronavirus pandemic started, they were nearing the end of a study they conducted in collaboration with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, which showed that dogs can detect malaria.

The results of the just-published study show that dogs detect kovid 19 on clothing worn by infected people with an accuracy of 94.3 percent, as opposed to rapid antigen tests that have 58 to 77 percent accuracy and compared to the p-si-ar test that has 97.2 percent.

However, dogs beat p-si-ar speed tests because they make a diagnosis in less than a second. “This also applies to asymptomatic cases, as well as to people who are mildly infected,” said Professor James Logan of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who was one of the leaders in this study.

The golden retriever Tala was the most accurate and in 94.5 percent of cases she managed to detect a covid infection.

Birds, such as spaniels, retrievers and labradors, are especially good breeds of dogs for detecting coronavirus. “These are dogs that absolutely love to sniff and explore,” claims Gestova. “They are also very tame and love working with people in public places.”

It takes eight to 10 weeks to train a dog to detect kovida 19. In this study, dogs were trained to sniff out T-shirts, socks and masks donated to them by the National Health Service, some of which had a positive test for kovid.

Dogs will not be able to replace p-si-ar tests, but they could be of great use at airports where they could inspect arriving passengers much faster and determine when to undergo a psi-si test or quarantine while waiting for results. , which would significantly reduce the need to provide quarantine accommodation and the cost of PR testing.

The biggest challenge is training because it requires time and clothes worn by infected and uninfected people. A study is underway to identify odor molecules that dogs are able to smell, which would enable the production of “pseudo odors” that would be used in the training of a large number of dogs.

Given that similar projects performed in many countries, including Finland, France and Lebanon, it seems that it is not impossible for dogs to be permanent “employees” at airports in the future.