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A total of 48 deaths of people in Bulgaria who had tested positive for Covid-19 were registered in the past 24 hours, bringing the country’s death toll linked to the disease to 15 907, according to the April 26 report by the national information system. Of 5454 tests done in the past 24 hours, 400 – about 7.4 per cent – proved positive. To date, 397 500 cases of new coronavirus have been confirmed in Bulgaria. There are 56 650 active cases, a decrease of 205 compared with the figure in th...

The EU-wide survey, the Eurobarometer winter poll, was conducted between February 12 and March 18 2021. Bulgaria’s figure of 18 per cent who want to be vaccinated as soon as possible is significantly lower than the average for the EU, of 42 per cent. Twenty-one per cent of the Bulgarians polled said that they wanted to get the jab “some time in 2021” while 32 per cent said they wanted it “later”. One per cent told the pollsters that they already had been vaccinated. The EU average for...

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) human medicines committee (CHMP) has recommended to proceed with giving a second dose of Vaxzevria, the brand name of the AstraZeneca vaccine against Covid-19, between four and 12 weeks after giving the first one in line with the product information, the EMA said in a statement on April 23. The CHMP considered recommendations to give the second dose of Vaxzevria after a longer interval than the recommended 4-12 weeks, to not give a second dose at all, or t...

A total of 22 016 doses of vaccines against Covid-19 were administered in Bulgaria on April 22, which outgoing Health Minister Kostadin Angelov described as the largest number in a single day so far. Since Bulgaria began its vaccination campaign on December 27, a total of 698 517 doses of vaccines against Covid-19 have been administered, according to the April 23 report by the national information system. A total of 151 817 people have received a second dose, an increase of 8632 compared with t...

A hundred people in Bulgaria who had tested positive for Covid-19 died in the past 24 hours, bringing the country’s death toll linked to the disease to 15 618, according to the April 22 report by the national information system. Of 14 215 tests done in the past 24 hours, 2002 – about 14.08 per cent – proved positive. To date, 392 913 cases of new coronavirus have been confirmed in Bulgaria. There are 59 087 active cases, a decrease of 2033 compared with the figure in the April 21 report. ...

One month after the European Commission’s proposal for a Digital Green Certificate, representatives in the eHealth Network agreed on guidelines describing the main technical specifications for the implementation of the system, the Commission said on April 22. This is a crucial step for the establishment of the necessary infrastructure at EU level, the Commission said. The European Commission set out on March 17 its proposal for the creation of a Digital Green Certificate to facilitate safe fr...

Vaccines of the mRNA type will be on offer. Such vaccines include the BioNTech-Pfizer and Moderna jabs. The statement said that the regional health inspectorates will make the necessary arrangements and details of the vaccination points will be announced on April 26. Fifty per cent of the vaccines that will be delivered will be distributed to general practitioners, who will continue the implementation of phase four of the national vaccination plan. Chief State Health Inspector Angel Kunchev sai...

Deliveries to Bulgaria of about 5.5 million doses of vaccines against Covid-19 are expected by the end of June, Medicines Agency head Bogdan Kirilov said in an interview with Bulgarian National Television on April 21. Kirilov said that next week, about 140 000 doses of BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine against Covid-19 would be delivered to Bulgaria, followed by 270 000 each week in May and up to 410 000 doses in June. He said that it was expected that by the end of June, there would be deliveries of abo...

A total of 106 people in Bulgaria who had tested positive for Covid-19 died in the past 24 hours, bringing the country’s death toll linked to the disease to 15 518, according to the April 21 report by the national information system. To date, 390 911 cases of new coronavirus have been confirmed in Bulgaria, counting in those who have died, the active cases and those who have recovered from the virus. Of 13 800 tests done in the past day, a total of 2096 – about 15.2 per cent – proved posi...

The deaths of 217 people in Bulgaria who had tested positive for Covid-19 were registered in the past 24 hours, bringing the country’s death toll linked to the disease to 15 412, according to the April 20 report by the national information system. Of 15 952 tests done in the past day, 2434 – about 15.3 per cent – proved positive. To date, 388 815 cases of new coronavirus have been confirmed in Bulgaria, counting in the deaths, the active cases and those who have recovered from the virus. ...