By the end of the week, expert councils will give an opinion on how the vaccination with AstraZeneca for people under 60 will continue. This was stated at an extraordinary briefing by the Minister of Health Prof. Kostadin Angelov.
“There is a letter from the Portuguese presidency, from the Portuguese Minister of Health, in which we are told that, as a pan-European approach, the use of the vaccine should be limited to people under the age of 60. To this end, it was decided to ask our the expert advice in the country – from immunologists, virologists, cardiologists and other specialists, who urgently need to say what to do in Bulgaria with the AstraZeneca vaccine, he commented.
There are two important questions to answer here. The first question is what to do with people who have the first needle of AstraZeneca. And the second is what to do with people who want to have a second. “AstraZeneca’s needle, if we stop it in the country,” Angelov said.
Among the options discussed are those vaccinated with the first needle of AstraZeneca to receive a second dose of mRNA vaccine or Jansen vector preparation.
Interest in the AstraZeneca vaccine has dropped to symbolic percentages in the country, the minister added.
“There are only a few people who want to get it. From a medical point of view, the vaccine has been tested, it is safe and effective. We are all witnessing the reasons for the outflow and what they are due to,” he said.
AstraZeneca vaccines will be withdrawn, if interest in them drops completely, and will be stored in the refrigerators of BulBio or RHI.
“And according to the contracts we have with the European Commission, we will decide what to do with them,” Angelov said.
So far, no vaccine has been destroyed or discarded in Bulgaria.
“Since May, of the six countries that signaled the European Union, Bulgaria is the country that will receive the most vaccines,” said the Minister of Health and assured that there will be a choice of vaccines from May 1.
Today, 62010 doses of Pfizer vaccine have arrived in the country, and this amount should arrive every Monday by the end of the month. From next month, 1 million units of the Pfizer vaccine are expected to arrive from emergency deliveries, and we expect another 1,250,000 in June. Thus, a total of 2.7 million doses of the vaccine are expected to arrive in the country by the end of June. of Pfizer.
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