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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 report. The deaths of nine people in Bulgaria who had tested positive for Covid-19 were registered ...

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 Bulgaria, a figure that includes those who have died, the active cases and those who have recovered f...

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 EU and that essential components are sourced from the EU. It also stipulates that, from the start of ...

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, personal ID number or address – the vaccine recipient should lodge a formal request with the vaccinatio...

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 between April 2021 and April 2020 is even starker – an increase of 191.3 per cent, representing 2400 ...