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Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Latvia and Slovakia will receive a total of 2,854,654 additional doses of empathy vaccine. This decision was reached today at a meeting of EU ambassadors in Brussels, the Portuguese presidency of the EU Council said, citing BTA.
Bulgaria’s share is 1,151,000 doses, diplomatic sources told Club Z.
The specified amount will be divided among the five countries based on population. A total of 19 of the other EU countries will share 6.66 million doses under the same rule. The additional doses were provided by Pfizer and were originally scheduled to be delivered to the EU in the second quarter.
The manufacturer has provided a total of 10 million additional doses. According to the distribution agreed today, Austria, the Czech Republic and Slovenia will receive population-based doses of the additional 10 million total. Today’s decision is unique, the presidency said.
This came after Bulgaria and four other countries rejected the doses they deserved from the more expensive and hard-to-store Pfizer to wait for the cheaper Astra Zeneca. However, after the Swedish-British company drastically slowed deliveries, the countries were among the least vaccinated.
In terms of 14-day morbidity from the coronavirus, Bulgaria ranks fifth in the EU with 732 people per 100,000. According to the same indicator, the country ranks second on the Balkan Peninsula, Chief Health Inspector Angel Kunchev announced today. we are the third place in the European Union and the first in the Balkan Peninsula.
