Reply To: COVID-19 vaccines in Bulgaria

[Красимир Ганчев]

We are expected to receive nearly 5.5 million vaccines by the end of June.

With the provided quantities of vaccines, “green corridors” for vaccination should be opened
Bulgaria will receive nearly 5.5 million vaccines by the end of June. This was stated by the resigned Prime Minister Boyko Borissov at an extraordinary government meeting.

“The third wave of coronavirus in our country is going down,” Borissov said.

More than 270,000 doses of Pfizer vaccine are expected each week in May, and 410,000 doses per week in June. Moderna’s vaccine will deliver 36,000 doses each week next month, and 41,000 doses a week in the last two weeks of June.

Estimates from the Ministry of Health show that in the second quarter of the year Bulgaria will receive 3.5 million doses of Pfizer vaccine, 420,000 doses of Moderna, 550,000 doses of Jansen and about 1 million of AstraZeneca, or a total of nearly 5 million. , 5 million doses of vaccine.

Boyko Borissov stressed that with the quantities of vaccines provided in this way, the green corridors for vaccination in our country should be opened and those wishing to be immunized as soon as possible.

“Yesterday there were nearly 19,500 vaccinated, I hope that from today their number will be 20,000 per day, and from next week – 30,000-40,000 people. “Enough vaccines have been provided through GPs and vaccination centers,” Borissov said.