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One month after the European Commission’s proposal for a Digital Green Certificate, representatives in the eHealth Network agreed on guidelines describing the main technical specifications for the implementation of the system, the Commission said on April 22. This is a crucial step for the establishment of the necessary infrastructure at EU level, the Commission said. The European Commission set out on March 17 its proposal for the creation of a Digital Green Certificate to facilitate safe free movement inside the European Union during the Covid-19 pandemic. The Digital Green Certificate wi...

Vaccines of the mRNA type will be on offer. Such vaccines include the BioNTech-Pfizer and Moderna jabs. The statement said that the regional health inspectorates will make the necessary arrangements and details of the vaccination points will be announced on April 26. Fifty per cent of the vaccines that will be delivered will be distributed to general practitioners, who will continue the implementation of phase four of the national vaccination plan. Chief State Health Inspector Angel Kunchev said at the “green corridors”, there would be vaccines of all types currently held by Bulgaria. The...

Deliveries to Bulgaria of about 5.5 million doses of vaccines against Covid-19 are expected by the end of June, Medicines Agency head Bogdan Kirilov said in an interview with Bulgarian National Television on April 21. Kirilov said that next week, about 140 000 doses of BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine against Covid-19 would be delivered to Bulgaria, followed by 270 000 each week in May and up to 410 000 doses in June. He said that it was expected that by the end of June, there would be deliveries of about half a million doses of the Janssen vaccine, 3.5 million of BioNTech-Pfizer, 420 000 of Moderna a...

A total of 106 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 15 518, according to the April 21 report by the national information system. To date, 390 911 cases of new coronavirus have been confirmed in Bulgaria, counting in those who have died, the active cases and those who have recovered from the virus. Of 13 800 tests done in the past day, a total of 2096 – about 15.2 per cent – proved positive. There are 61 120 active cases, a decrease of 1361 compared with the figure in the April 20 rep...

The deaths of 217 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 15 412, according to the April 20 report by the national information system. Of 15 952 tests done in the past day, 2434 – about 15.3 per cent – proved positive. To date, 388 815 cases of new coronavirus have been confirmed in Bulgaria, counting in the deaths, the active cases and those who have recovered from the virus. There are 62 481 active cases, a decrease of 2027 in the past day. The report said that 4244 people ...