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Bulgaria’s Health Minister Kostadin Angelov issued a series of orders on the night of January 26, governing changes to measures as the Covid-19 epidemic declaration in the country is extended to April 30. These include orders on the system for the return to in-person classes for school pupils in the fifth to 12 grades. From February 4 to 17, pupils in the seventh, eighth and 12th grades return to in-person classes. From February 18 to March 2, pupils in the fifth, 10th and 11th grades return to in-person classes, while from March to 4 to 17, pupils in the sixth, ninth and 12th grades will a...

Bulgaria’s Ministry of Health posted on January 25 its projection of how many doses of vaccines against Covid-19 the country will receive by the end of 2021. The numbers do not include AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine, which is pending approval by the European Commission. The vaccine is subject to a decision by the European Medicines Agency, pencilled in for January 29. By March 31, depending on the rate of production and delivery, Bulgaria expects to receive 255 255 BioNTech-Pfizer and 60 000 Moderna vaccines against Covid-19. Between April 1 and June 30, the figures are projected to rise ...

Bulgaria may have one to two million people vaccinated against Covid-19 by the end of summer 2021, according to Professor Todor Kantardzhiev, head of the National Centre for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases. “A low level of antibodies in your blood a few months after getting ill or vaccinated doesn’t mean you’re no longer safe,” Kantardzhiev, a member of the national operational headquarters against Covid-19, was reported as saying on January 22. Kantardzhev said that the coronavirus vaccine would not be harmful in any way. “Europe will not allow a vaccine that will cause undesirab...

Bulgaria’s Health Minister Kostadin Angelov said on January 7 that the country’s anti-epidemic measures were producing “extremely positive” data about the Covid-19 situation. Angelov told a briefing that there was an enduring trend that the number of people who had recovered from the virus was double the number of new patients. Chief State Health Inspector Angel Kunchev said that Bulgaria continued to be third in mortality and 24th in morbidity in the European Union. However, he said that because of the holidays, the European Centre for Disease Control had not published data for this ...

Fifty-nine 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 7961, according to the January 7 report by the national information system. The report said that 1002 new cases had been confirmed in the past 24 hours, of which 659 were established by PCR tests and 343 by rapid antigen tests. A total of 10 088 tests were performed during the past 24 hours, 5541 of which were PCR tests and 4547 antigen tests. Of the newly-confirmed cases, 242 are in the city of Sofia, 99 in the district of Plovdiv and 77 i...