Paxlovid coronavirus medication will be available in Estonia from September and those risk group patients who test positive will be able to request a prescription.
Pollution which resulted from effluent from a local silage farm flowing into Jõgeva County river is receding, the Environmental Board (Keskkonnaamet) says, though not before causing the death of thousands of fish.
Newly-appointed Minister for Health and Labor Peep Peterson has urged caution in the formation of a one single, large state agency to cover the tasks currently carried out by three.
The outgoing education minister, Liina Kersna (Reform), worked hard to keep schools open amid rising Covid rates last autumn, and cannot be criticized for simply performing her role, Tanel Kiik (Center) who was health minister at the time, says.