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The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said on January 29 that it had recommended granting a conditional marketing authorisation for AstraZeneca’s vaccine against Covid-19 in people from 18 years of age. This is the third Covid-19 vaccine that EMA has recommended for authorisation. The EMA said that its human medicines committee (CHMP) had thoroughly assessed the data on the quality, safety and efficacy of the vaccine and recommended by consensus a formal conditional marketing authorisation be g...

Bulgaria’s Parliament approved at second reading on January 28 amendments to the State of Emergency Act, which allow the use of mobile polling stations for people under quarantine to cast their ballots in the April 4 parliamentary election. In order to be able to do so, the quarantined people would need to notify local authorities, which maintain voter lists, no later than three days before Election Day. After a cross-check with the regional health inspectorate, their names would be removed f...

Twenty-eight people in Bulgaria who had tested positive for Covid-19 died in the past 24 hours, bringing the country’s death toll to 8944, the national information system daily report on January 28 said. Of 13 279 tests done in the past day, 598 – about 4.5 per cent – proved positive, the report said. To date, 217 014 cases of new coronavirus have been confirmed in Bulgaria, of which 26 448 are active. This is a decrease of 57 in the number of active cases compared with the figure in the ...

The number of arrivals of visitors from abroad in Bulgaria for holidays in December 2020 was 88.7 per cent lower than in December 2019, the National Statistical Institute (NSI) said on January 28, noting that the figures came in the context of the continuing Covid-19 epidemic situation. Overall, the number of arrivals of visitors from abroad in Bulgaria was 63.3 per cent lower than in December 2019, the NSI said. Business trips were down by 63.9 per cent year-on-year, while in the “other” c...

Bulgaria could administer coronavirus vaccines to as many as 2.5 million people by the end of June, provided the current timetable for deliveries and expected EU approval for new vaccines holds, the head of Bulgaria’s medicines agency Bogdan Kirilov told a briefing on January 28. Kirilov said that in the agency’s baseline scenario, with the two vaccines currently approved for use by the EU, it would be possible to vaccinate one million people by the end of June. “If the Oxford vaccine get...

A regular monthly poll has found that the business climate in Bulgaria rebounded in January, rising by 6.9 percentage points compared to December, the National Statistical Institute (NSI) said on January 28. This increase came after two months of decline, which reversed a six-month upward trend recorded after the indicator plunged to a 23-year low in April 2020 amid the Covid-19 crisis. The poll covers four sectors in Bulgaria, all of them showing an improvement in business sentiment. The indic...

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Thirty-six people in Bulgaria who had tested positive for Covid-19 died in the past 24 hours, bringing the country’s death toll to 8916, the national information system daily report on January 27 said. Of 15 656 tests done in the past day, 827 – about 5.3 per cent – proved positive, the report said. To date, 216 416 cases of new coronavirus have been confirmed in Bulgaria, of which 26 505 are active. This is a decrease of 77 in the number of active cases compared with the figure in the Ja...

Bulgaria’s Government decided on January 26 to extend the Covid-19 epidemic declaration that has been in place since May 2020, which would have expired on January 31, until the end of April. The Cabinet announcement did not say whether the current restrictions meant to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus, put in place in November last year and set to expire on January 31 as well, would be extended past that date. But Prime Minister Boiko Borissov asked Health Minister Kostadin Angelov ...

Sixty 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 8880, the national information system daily report said on January 26. Of 13 540 tests done in the past day, a total of 722 – about 5.3 per cent – proved positive. To date, 215 589 cases of new coronavirus have been confirmed in Bulgaria, of which 26 582 are active. This is a decrease of 347 in the number of active cases in the past 24 hours. ...