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A total of 48 deaths of people in Bulgaria who had tested positive for Covid-19 were registered in the past 24 hours, bringing the country’s death toll linked to the disease to 15 907, according to the April 26 report by the national information system. Of 5454 tests done in the past 24 hours, 400 – about 7.4 per cent – proved positive. To date, 397 500 cases of new coronavirus have been confirmed in Bulgaria. There are 56 650 active cases, a decrease of 205 compared with the figure in the April 25 report. The report said that in the past 24 hours, 557 people had recovered from the viru...

The EU-wide survey, the Eurobarometer winter poll, was conducted between February 12 and March 18 2021. Bulgaria’s figure of 18 per cent who want to be vaccinated as soon as possible is significantly lower than the average for the EU, of 42 per cent. Twenty-one per cent of the Bulgarians polled said that they wanted to get the jab “some time in 2021” while 32 per cent said they wanted it “later”. One per cent told the pollsters that they already had been vaccinated. The EU average for those who answered “never” was 12 per cent. Other countries where one in five or more answered ...

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) human medicines committee (CHMP) has recommended to proceed with giving a second dose of Vaxzevria, the brand name of the AstraZeneca vaccine against Covid-19, between four and 12 weeks after giving the first one in line with the product information, the EMA said in a statement on April 23. The CHMP considered recommendations to give the second dose of Vaxzevria after a longer interval than the recommended 4-12 weeks, to not give a second dose at all, or to give an mRNA vaccine as a second dose. “However, there has not been enough exposure and follow...

A total of 22 016 doses of vaccines against Covid-19 were administered in Bulgaria on April 22, which outgoing Health Minister Kostadin Angelov described as the largest number in a single day so far. Since Bulgaria began its vaccination campaign on December 27, a total of 698 517 doses of vaccines against Covid-19 have been administered, according to the April 23 report by the national information system. A total of 151 817 people have received a second dose, an increase of 8632 compared with the figure in the information system’s April 22 report. The April 23 report said that 103 people in...

A hundred 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 15 618, according to the April 22 report by the national information system. Of 14 215 tests done in the past 24 hours, 2002 – about 14.08 per cent – proved positive. To date, 392 913 cases of new coronavirus have been confirmed in Bulgaria. There are 59 087 active cases, a decrease of 2033 compared with the figure in the April 21 report. So far, 318 208 people in Bulgaria have recovered from the virus, including 3935 in the past 24 hour...