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The European Medicines Agency (EMA) safety committee (PRAC) concluded on April 20 that a warning about unusual blood clots with low blood platelets should be added to the product information for Covid-19 Vaccine Janssen, the agency said in a media statement. PRAC also concluded that these events should be listed as “very rare” side effects of the vaccine, the EMA said. The committee took into consideration all currently available evidence including eight reports from the United States of serious cases of unusual blood clots associated with low levels of blood platelets, one of which had...

For a fifth consecutive week, all of the 28 districts in Bulgaria are Covid-19 “red zones”, meaning a rate of infection of 120 or higher per 100 000 population. The weekly report by the National Centre for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, covering data as of April 18, showed rates of infection generally declining compared with the three previous reports. The infection rate in the city of Sofia was 621 per 100 000, down from 837 in the previous report. The highest rate of infection was in the district of Varna, 626 out of 100 000 population, down from 816 a week earlier. The third distri...

With 57 deaths registered in the past 24 hours, Bulgaria’s death toll linked to Covid-19 is 15 195, according to the April 19 report by the national information system. Of 4644 tests done in the past 24 hours, a total of 418 – about 9.1 per cent – proved positive. To date, 386 381 cases of new coronavirus have been confirmed in Bulgaria. There are 64 508 active cases, a decrease 1080 compared with the figure in the April 18 report. A total of 9229 patients with Covid-19 are in hospital, an increase of 25 in the past 24 hours, with 783 in intensive care, a decrease of 14. The report said...

Bulgaria’s national vaccination headquarters decided on April 19 that the AstraZeneca vaccine against Covid-19 will not be administered to women under the age of 65 who have an increased risk of thrombosis and/or a history of the blood disorder thromocytopenia, outgoing Health Minister Kostadin Angelov told a news conference. Angelov said that the vaccination HQ had decided that everyone who had received a first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine and had not experienced serious side effects could receive a second dose of the same vaccine. Those who received a first dose of AstraZeneca but do n...

BioNTech and Pfizer said in a media statement on April 19 that they would supply an additional 100 million doses of Comirnaty, the companies’ Covid-19 vaccine, to the 27 European Union (EU) member states in 2021. This announcement is a result of the European Commission’s (EC) decision to exercise its option to purchase an additional 100 million doses under its expanded Advanced Purchase Agreement signed on February 17 2021, the statement said. This brings the total number of doses to be delivered to the EU to 600 million. “We remain committed to moving as quickly and safely as possible...