Coronavirus in Bulgaria: mRNA vaccine ratio will soon exceed vector (timeline) – Bulgaria

In the next three months, Bulgaria will receive more than 3,200,000 doses of mRNA vaccines, Bogdan Kirilov, director of the Bulgarian Medicines Agency, said in a briefing, along with Pirogov director Professor Asen Baltov. Therefore, in the coming weeks and months, the proportion of mRNA vaccines (such as Pfizer and Modern products) will be higher than that of vector vaccines, he added.

So far, only the Astra Zeneca vector vaccine is being used in the green corridors.

A reversal in the ratio is possible after a day ago the EU agreed to deliver 1.2 million doses to Bulgaria as a show of goodwill after the country lagged behind in the vaccination process, relying on the cheaper Astra Zeneca, which, however, delayed its deliveries. .

The elderly and people with chronic diseases of the fourth phase will probably be included from next week, added the director of “Pirogov” Asen Baltov. We hope to have more than 50% of the population vaccinated by the end of June, and together with those who have already fallen ill we will reach the coveted 70%, he added.

The two announced that today the limit of 500,000 people who have been vaccinated has been crossed. People with two vaccines, according to data in the morning, are just under 100,000, according to the prescriptions of the manufacturers, the vaccination ends with a second dose.

We can do 20 to 25,000 doses a day, Baltov said.

The two attributed the decision of the EU ambassadors in favor of Bulgaria only to the intransigence of Prime Minister Boyko Borissov.

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