“The vaccination campaign in the country is slowing down,” Bogdan Kirilov, Executive Director of the Bulgarian Drug Agency warned in an interview for bTV. The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is the most preferred vaccine.
It will not come to discarding vaccines against Covid-19 because of expiry, because the European Commission mechanisms allow for the donation and resale of the vaccines. “There are no vaccine batches nearing expiry. In July there are around 50,000 doses of AstraZeneva coming, but there are also some 80,000 people waiting for a second dose of the vaccine, so these doses will be given priority,” Bogdan Kirilov said.
Bulgaria is expecting the delivery of a total of 13 million vaccines. There are some 3.8 million doses in stock, 1.5 million doses have been administered.
On Tuesday, the lowest temperatures will be between minus 5 and 0°C; in Sofia - around minus 5°C. It will remain cold and cloudy with snowfalls over most of the country and rainfall in the southeastern regions. The snow cover will..
Bulgaria’s President Rumen Radev named Sofia Airport after the Apostle of Freedom Vasil Levski, the press secretariat of the head of state announced. Thus, its official name becomes Vasil Levski Sofia Airport. According to the Constitution, the Head of..
The European Commission has decided to close the infringement procedure against Bulgaria for the non-implementation of its obligations to review and update the Second Flood Risk Management Plans and the Third River Basin Management Plans. A statement..
Kristiyan Vladov and Stefan Kyurkchiev of the Plovdiv Museum of Natural History are working on a project to bring live fish from the southern Arctic..
The one-year anniversary of the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was marked with a memorial service in Sofia's St Nedelya Cathedral. It..
Bulgarian Finance Minister Temenuzhka Petkova will travel to Brussels to provide an update on Bulgaria’s progress towards euro area accession. The..
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