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Fifty-six people in Bulgaria who had tested positive for Covid-19 died in the past day, bringing the country’s death toll linked to the disease to 16 548, according to the May 4 daily report by the national information system. Of 6724 tests done in the past day, a total of 631 – about 9.4 per cent – proved positive. To date, 405 825 cases of new coronavirus have been confirmed in Bulgaria. There are 48 109 active cases, a decrease of 151 compared with the figure in the May 3 report. The report said that 726 people recovered from the virus in the past day, bringing the total to 341 168. ...

Close to 274 000 doses of BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine against Covid-19 were delivered to Bulgaria on May 4, Bulgarian National Radio reported. The doses, along with those of the AstraZeneca vaccine, will be available in the “green corridors” for Covid-19 vaccinations, open during the April 30 – May 9 holiday period. On April 30, a total of 12 287 doses were administered, followed by 5755 on May 1, a total of 3405 on May 2 and 8887 on May 3. Outgoing Health Minister Kostadin Angelov told a briefing that at the beginning of next week, the number of doses of vaccines still needed for those in ...

A total of 21 447 doses of vaccines against Covid-19 were administered in the first three days of Bulgaria’s Easter holidays “green corridors” for jabs for all comers, going by the figures in the national information system. On the first day, April 30, a total of 12 287 doses were administered, followed by 5755 on May 1 and 3405 on May 2. To date, a total of 824 623 doses of vaccines against Covid-19 have been administered in Bulgaria. At the “green corridors”, operating between April 30 and May 9 during the succession of public holidays in Bulgaria, the BioNTech-Pfizer and AstraZen...

On April 30, the first day of Bulgaria’s Easter holidays “green corridors” for Covid-19 vaccinations for all comers, a total of 12 287 doses were administered, according to the May 1 report by the national information system. This brings to 815 463 the number of doses administered since Bulgaria began its Covid-19 vaccination campaign on December 27. A total of 5687 people received a second dose, bringing the total to 213 354, the report said. Bulgaria’s national vaccination headquarters decided on April 22 that “green corridors” for vaccinations against Covid-19 for all comers wo...

The road death toll is nine lower than at the same time in 2020. April 2020 had been the second consecutive month in which the road death toll was lower than at the same time in 2019. In March 2020, Bulgaria imposed intercity travel restrictions, which remained in effect until early May and were seen at the time as a contributing factor to a reduced road death toll. However, the trend of a reduced road death toll has continued in the first four months of 2021, long after the end of the weeks of intercity travel restrictions. April 30 2021 was the start of a succession of public holidays makin...