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The number of people in Bulgaria who have completed the vaccination cycle against Covid-19 has passed the 500 000-mark, having risen by 2388 in the past 24 hours to reach 501 053, according to the May 24 daily report by the national information system. Completing the vaccination cycle means either that they have received a second dose or one from a single-dose vaccine. On Sunday, 3668 doses of vaccines against Covid-19 were administered, bringing the total to date to 1 260 683, according to the...

A total of 237 people in Bulgaria who had tested positive for Covid-19 died in the past week, bringing the country’s death toll linked to the disease to 17 487, according to the May 23 daily report by the national information system. This includes 13 deaths registered on May 22. Bulgaria’s lowest Covid-19 death toll in a week in 2021 was 217, in the week ending January 31, and its highest was 857, in the week ending April 4. To date, 416 565 cases of new coronavirus have been confirmed in B...

The European Commission (EC) signed on May 20 a third contract with pharmaceutical companies BioNTech and Pfizer, reserving an additional 1.8 billion doses of vaccine against Covid-19 on behalf of all EU member states, between end 2021 to 2023, the EC said. It will allow for the purchase of 900 million doses of the current vaccine and of a vaccine adapted to variants, with the option to purchase an additional 900 million doses. The contract requires that the vaccine production is based in the E...

Bulgaria’s Health Ministry has outlined the procedures to fix errors in electronic Covid-19 vaccination certificates, referring to cases where the names of vaccine recipients were spelled incorrectly in Latin script. The ministry said that it received a number of complaints in relation to such errors and said that all cases it has been notified of would be corrected by May 21. Going forward, the procedure for fixing errors – which could include data such as names, date of vaccination, perso...

Against the background of car sales having been pushed down in 2020 amid the Covid-19 crisis, new passenger car registrations in Bulgaria in January to April 2021 were 18 per cent higher than in the first four months of last year. This is according to figures released on May 19 by ACEA, the European Automobile Manufacturers Association. There were a total of 7894 new passenger car registrations in the first four months of 2021, compared with 6751 in the same period last year. The difference bet...

A total of 36 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 17 379, according to the May 19 daily report by the national information system. Of 13 794 tests, 457 – about 3.3 per cent – proved positive. To date, 415 326 cases of new coronavirus have been confirmed in Bulgaria, a figure that includes those who have died, the active cases and those who have recovered from the virus. There are 30 4...

Twenty out of the 28 districts in Bulgaria are Covid-19 “red zones”, meaning an infection rate of 120 or higher out of 100 000 population, according to a report by the National Centre for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases for the 14-day period ending May 16. The remainder are “orange zones”, meaning an infection rate of 60 to 119.9 per 100 000 population. The “orange zones” are the districts of Vratsa, Kurdzhali, Pazardzhik, Pleven, Razgrad, Silistra, Haskovo and Shoumen. This repre...

So far, 425 971 people in Bulgaria have completed the vaccination cycle, meaning either that they have received a second dose or one from a single-dose vaccine. This figure includes 11 242 people in the past 24 hours, according to the May 18 daily report by the national information system. So far, 1 134 977 doses of vaccines against Covid-19 have been administered in Bulgaria, including 18 236 in the past 24 hours. The report said that the deaths of 84 people who had tested positive for Covid-1...

Bulgaria had the lowest percentage in the European Union of people working from home in 2020, at 1.2 per cent compared with an EU average of 12.3 per cent in the 15-64 age group, the bloc’s statistics agency Eurostat said on May 17. The social distancing measures that were introduced as a response to the Covd-19 pandemic forced many people to work from home, Eurostat said. This resulted in a sharp increase, compared with an average of about five per cent over the past decade, the statistics a...

Bulgaria’s annual consumer price index (CPI) rose by two per cent in April, compared to 0.6 per cent inflation a month earlier, data released by the National Statistical Institute (NSI) on May 17 showed. Monthly inflation in April was 0.7 per cent, the eighth time that the monthly CPI figure showed an increase over the previous 12 months, which also saw deflation recorded three times and one month of zero growth. Beyond the Covid-19 pandemic’s impact on the inflation indicator, it limited N...