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Bulgaria is negotiating an additional 1 million vaccines

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Bulgaria can receive 1 million Pfizer vaccines from the additional quantities agreed by the European Commission, Bulgaria's Health Minister Kostadin Angelov said in Yambol today.

Bulgaria is participating in the discussion on the distribution of the additional 10 million vaccines agreed by the EU, Angelov stressed. "The additional amount of vaccines that we will order from Pfizer is 1,500,000. We will try to shift the deliveries planned for the fourth quarter of the year to the second quarter," the minister added.

Regarding the production of vaccines in Bulgaria, the Minister specified that the initiative is of the EU for the establishment of a HERA incubator aс each of the Member States can apply with its own production facilities.



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