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The European Medicines Agency (EMA) safety committee (PRAC) concluded on April 20 that a warning about unusual blood clots with low blood platelets should be added to the product information for Covid-19 Vaccine Janssen, the agency said in a media statement. PRAC also concluded that these events should be listed as “very rare” side effects of the vaccine, the EMA said. The committee took into consideration all currently available evidence including eight reports from the United States of ...

For a fifth consecutive week, all of the 28 districts in Bulgaria are Covid-19 “red zones”, meaning a rate of infection of 120 or higher per 100 000 population. The weekly report by the National Centre for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, covering data as of April 18, showed rates of infection generally declining compared with the three previous reports. The infection rate in the city of Sofia was 621 per 100 000, down from 837 in the previous report. The highest rate of infection was in ...

With 57 deaths registered in the past 24 hours, Bulgaria’s death toll linked to Covid-19 is 15 195, according to the April 19 report by the national information system. Of 4644 tests done in the past 24 hours, a total of 418 – about 9.1 per cent – proved positive. To date, 386 381 cases of new coronavirus have been confirmed in Bulgaria. There are 64 508 active cases, a decrease 1080 compared with the figure in the April 18 report. A total of 9229 patients with Covid-19 are in hospital, a...

Bulgaria’s national vaccination headquarters decided on April 19 that the AstraZeneca vaccine against Covid-19 will not be administered to women under the age of 65 who have an increased risk of thrombosis and/or a history of the blood disorder thromocytopenia, outgoing Health Minister Kostadin Angelov told a news conference. Angelov said that the vaccination HQ had decided that everyone who had received a first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine and had not experienced serious side effects coul...

BioNTech and Pfizer said in a media statement on April 19 that they would supply an additional 100 million doses of Comirnaty, the companies’ Covid-19 vaccine, to the 27 European Union (EU) member states in 2021. This announcement is a result of the European Commission’s (EC) decision to exercise its option to purchase an additional 100 million doses under its expanded Advanced Purchase Agreement signed on February 17 2021, the statement said. This brings the total number of doses to be de...

Three days after Bulgaria’s government announced that the national response staff against Covid-19 was being disbanded, outgoing Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov said on April 18 that he had ordered that it resume operations. Borissov’s GERB party objected to that latter vote, saying that it was not required by the constitution and could call into question the legality of decisions made by the outgoing government, which remains in place in an acting capacity until a new one takes off...

A total of 121 people in Bulgaria who had tested positive for Covid-19 died in the past 24 hours, which takes the country’s death toll linked to the disease above the 15 000-mark, to 15 100, according to the April 17 daily report by the national information system. Bulgaria passed the 14 000-mark in its Covid-19 death toll on April 7, and the 13 000-mark on March 30. According to the national information system, of 15 638 tests done in the past day, 2126 – about 13.5 per cent – proved pos...

A total of 108 people in Bulgaria who had tested positive for Covid-19 died in the past 24 hours, bringing the country’s death linked to the disease to 14 979, according to the April 16 report by the national information system. Of 14 747 tests done in the past 24 hours, 2185 – about 14.9 per cent – proved positive. To date, 382 761 cases of new coronavirus have been confirmed in Bulgaria. There are 67 391 active cases, 1316 fewer than the figure in the April 15 report. A total of 9523 pa...

The outgoing government will make a decision after April 26 about whether to extend the Covid-19 epidemic declaration beyond the end of this month, if that by that time there is no new government in place to make the decision, Health Minister Kostadin Angelov told a news conference on April 16. The weekly briefings on the Covid-19 situation in Bulgaria are continuing in spite of the decision by Prime Minister Boiko Borissov, announced on the night of April 15, to disband the national Covid-19 r...

There were sharp political reactions following the decision by outgoing Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov to disband the national Covid-19 response staff. Stanislav Balabanov, of Slavi Trifonov’s party – the second-largest group in the new National Assembly – said that if the party had the opportunity to form a government, it would come up with “a real headquarters with real professionals”. “An abdominal surgeon cannot, with all due respect, manage a pandemic,” he said, in a...