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The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said on January 29 that it had recommended granting a conditional marketing authorisation for AstraZeneca’s vaccine against Covid-19 in people from 18 years of age. This is the third Covid-19 vaccine that EMA has recommended for authorisation. The EMA said that its human medicines committee (CHMP) had thoroughly assessed the data on the quality, safety and efficacy of the vaccine and recommended by consensus a formal conditional marketing authorisation be granted by the European Commission. This will assure EU citizens that the vaccine meets EU standards...

Bulgaria’s Parliament approved at second reading on January 28 amendments to the State of Emergency Act, which allow the use of mobile polling stations for people under quarantine to cast their ballots in the April 4 parliamentary election. In order to be able to do so, the quarantined people would need to notify local authorities, which maintain voter lists, no later than three days before Election Day. After a cross-check with the regional health inspectorate, their names would be removed from the main voter lists and added to the special lists drafted for mobile polling stations. Given t...

Twenty-eight people in Bulgaria who had tested positive for Covid-19 died in the past 24 hours, bringing the country’s death toll to 8944, the national information system daily report on January 28 said. Of 13 279 tests done in the past day, 598 – about 4.5 per cent – proved positive, the report said. To date, 217 014 cases of new coronavirus have been confirmed in Bulgaria, of which 26 448 are active. This is a decrease of 57 in the number of active cases compared with the figure in the January 27 report. A total of 627 people recovered from the virus in the past 24 hours, bringing the...

The number of arrivals of visitors from abroad in Bulgaria for holidays in December 2020 was 88.7 per cent lower than in December 2019, the National Statistical Institute (NSI) said on January 28, noting that the figures came in the context of the continuing Covid-19 epidemic situation. Overall, the number of arrivals of visitors from abroad in Bulgaria was 63.3 per cent lower than in December 2019, the NSI said. Business trips were down by 63.9 per cent year-on-year, while in the “other” category – including transit trips – the figure was down by 44.2 per cent compared with December ...

Bulgaria could administer coronavirus vaccines to as many as 2.5 million people by the end of June, provided the current timetable for deliveries and expected EU approval for new vaccines holds, the head of Bulgaria’s medicines agency Bogdan Kirilov told a briefing on January 28. Kirilov said that in the agency’s baseline scenario, with the two vaccines currently approved for use by the EU, it would be possible to vaccinate one million people by the end of June. “If the Oxford vaccine gets the approval and deliveries begin, by the end of June we should be able to vaccinate two million p...