European Medicines Agency

Coordinator of Romania's COVID-19 vaccination campaign Valeriu Gheorghita said on Tuesday that there is a clear prospect of immunising this summer 12-15-year-olds in the country using the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine.

The European Union's executive on May 3 proposed that travellers who are fully vaccinated with EU-approved jabs be able to enter the bloc, a statement said.

The European Commission urged the EU's 27 member countries - which make their own decisions on health matters - to "lift restrictions on non-essential travel for vaccinated persons travelling to the EU".

Ljubljana – Slovenia and Hungary have agreed to mutually recognise their respective Covid-19 vaccination certificates, the Slovenian Ministry has announced. A vaccination certificate issued in one country will have the same legal effect as the one issued in another, in line with the internal national legal orders.

A Bulgarian parliamentary committee has passed a motion to purchase the Russian Sputnik V vaccine despite it not having been approved for use in the EU.

Bulgaria's national vaccination task force decided on April 22 that "green corridors" for vaccinations against Covid-19 for all comers will be opened from April 30 to May 9, the Health Ministry said in a media statement.

Vaccines of the mRNA type will be on offer. Such vaccines include the BioNTech-Pfizer and Moderna jabs.

Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel said Wednesday (21 April) that the European Union needs more power to coordinate the bloc's response to health crises like the coronavirus pandemic, and did not rule out a treaty change to secure them.

President Klaus Iohannis said on Wednesday, after inaugurating a mobile vaccination center in Afumati - Ilfov County, that he is very pleased with how Romania's Covid immunization campaign is going. "We are very close to the targeted capacity of 100,000 people vaccinated daily.

Greece will recognise Russia's Sputnik V vaccine in its vaccination certificate, making it easier for Russian tourists to travel and spend their summer holidays in Greece.

Bulgarian Health Minister Kostadin Angelov announced this week that the country's roll-out of the AstraZeneca vaccine may be discontinued due to lack of interest.

Recently between 100 and 200 doses per day of the AstraZeneca vaccine have been administered throughout the country.

Denmark becomes the first country that has ceased giving the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine amid concerns about rare cases of blood clots, the first country to do so entirely.

The move is expected to delay the country's vaccination programme by several weeks.