The British version took over half the country
COVID fills hospitals, stops scheduled admission in Blagoevgrad, Shumen, Tarnovo and Yambol
Reducing working hours for restaurants, returning students online, restricting access to gyms and malls, and wearing masks outdoors. These tightening measures were discussed for more than 3 hours at a meeting on Monday by the heads of all 28 RHIs in the country, the Minister of Health Prof. Kostadin Angelov, the members of the vaccination and the National Operational Headquarters.
It remains to be seen
whether these
measures to
apply to
nationally, or
local level, where the incidence is very high, said Prof. Angelov. The decision is likely to be announced at a staff briefing on Thursday.
For the time being, they are being considered to be applied where the morbidity is over 300 per 100 thousand population, and it will be additionally decided whether all the measures discussed or some of them are. These are 8 districts, among which are Kyustendil, Burgas, Sofia, Shumen and Blagoevgrad. Apart from Kyustendil, a decision has already been made in them to suspend the planned admission and operations in the hospitals.
As a preventive measure, such a decision was made for MHAT – Shumen, and the hospital in Novi Pazar, as well as for Veliko Tarnovo and Yambol. The Varna University Hospital “St. Marina” also announced that they are suspending the planned admission and operations.
RHI – Kyustendil announced on Saturday that they will take a similar measure when filling 80% of the beds.
However, there will be no order at the national level, Minister Angelov was categorical. According to him, the medical institutions were prepared and there were no problems. However, he acknowledged that there are hospitals with a seriously staffed capacity, where organizational measures have been taken to control this.
According to the cardiologist from the Sofia University Hospital “St. Anna ”Dr. Rada Prokopova, however, hospitals have again begun to fill 90% of COVID infection.
“The measures are different in different areas. We have tried to reach a unified approach, but it is impossible, because there are areas with a morbidity of less than 50 per 100 thousand people, there are others with more than 500, which are very few.
We also discuss
the imposition of
quarantine for
incoming from
high risk
places ”,
explained Minister Angelov. The headquarters will discuss which measures will add value to the control of the epidemic and
it will not work
purposefully
to
the ban on
one or the other
“Our starting point will be the life and health of the people,” Angelov added.
The 14-day morbidity has not exceeded 300 per 100,000 people, but the 7-day morbidity – yes, which was the reason for yesterday’s meeting, the minister explained.
He called on people to be calm and sensible, to avoid mass events and to wear masks in order to keep the situation calm for as long as possible.
The reason for the jump in patients is the British version of the virus, health authorities said in recent weeks. 70% of the samples at the national level already have this option, said Prof. Angelov.
Its spread has already been proven in 15 districts in the country. These are Blagoevgrad, Burgas, Varna, Veliko Tarnovo, Gabrovo, Dobrich, Kyustendil, Montana, Pazardzhik, Plovdiv, Sliven, Smolyan, Sofia, Haskovo and Yambol, the health ministry said on Monday, citing results from the National Center for Infectious and Infectious Diseases. parasitic diseases. After sequencing of 413 samples of SARS-CoV-2 in Bulgaria and Germany
the British
variant of
the virus is
confirmed at
303 of the samples
The South African, Brazilian and Nigerian versions of the coronavirus have not been confirmed in Bulgaria.
76,800 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine will arrive tomorrow
76,800 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine are expected to arrive in the country tomorrow. This is the first shipment this month, with another 28,800 doses scheduled for delivery on March 12.
The total expected amount of this vaccine for the month is 300,000 doses, but for the rest there are no confirmed dates and quantities yet, announced the head of the Executive Agency for Medicines, Mag.-Pharm. Bogdan Kirilov.
The first of five deliveries of 21,060 doses of Pfizer / Bayontek vaccine arrived on Monday. The shipments are evenly distributed, and the total amount we will receive for this month is 105,300 doses.
50,000 more doses will arrive from the Moderna vaccine. However, the amount remains significantly less than that of the other two – 85,200.
At an extraordinary meeting on March 11, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) is expected to discuss the granting of a marketing authorization for the Belgian vaccine Jansen.
Even if it is approved, as expected, doses of it may arrive in April at the earliest, the representative of Bulgaria in the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Medicine of the EMA, Prof. Ilko Getov, told 24 Chassa.
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