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Every week, from Monday to Thursday, GPs and open vaccination centres in the country will immunise people over 60 years of age against Covid-19, according to an order issued on May 17 by Bulgaria’s caretaker Health Minister Stoicho Katsarov. During this period, vaccination of people under 60 years of age is allowed if they are being treated for ischemic heart disease, chronic renal failure, diabetes, cerebrovascular disease, chronic lung disease and cancer, or other illnesses at the discretion of the doctor, the Health Ministry said. The national vaccination plan approved by the previous go...

This brings Bulgaria’s death toll linked to the disease to 17 259. Of 4309 tests done in the past 24 hours, a total of 151 – about 3.5 per cent – proved positive. To date, 414 192 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 34 458 active cases, a decrease of six compared with the figure in the May 16 report. The report said that 148 people in Bulgaria had recovered from the virus in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 362 475. There are 4858 patients wit...

Bulgaria’s caretaker government has decided to join the European Commission deal to acquire Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines in 2022 and 2023, with the country set to receive 14 million doses in those two years, caretaker Health Minister Stoicho Katsarov said on May 17. The quantities would be sufficient for Bulgaria’s entire population, Katsarov told a briefing after a cabinet meeting. The contract stipulates that if a new strain emerges, Pfizer will produce a variant of its vaccine. Katsarov said that an order he had issued came into force on May 17, for regional health inspectorates to provide...

Chief State Health Inspector Angel Kunchev said in a May 16 television interview that Bulgaria’s health authorities plan to extend the country’s Covid-19 epidemic declaration by a further month, to the end of June. Bulgaria declared a State of Emergency on March 13 2020 because of the Covid-19 pandemic. This continued until May 13 2020, when it was succeeded by an epidemic declaration, which has been extended repeatedly, most recently to the end of May, a decision taken in the final weeks of the third Borissov government. Kunchev told bTV that the “green corridors” for vaccinations ag...

A total of 33 237 doses of vaccines against Covid-19 were administered in Bulgaria in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to date to 1 106 760, according to the May 15 daily report by the national information system. So far, 409 394 people have completed the vaccination cycle, meaning either that they have received a second dose or one from a single-dose vaccine. According to the report, in the past 24 hours, the doses administered included 18 091 of the Pfizer-BioNTech, 3587 of the Moderna, 11 440 of AstraZeneca and 119 of the Johnson & Johnson (Janssen). Bulgaria’s Health Ministry said ...