COVID-19 vaccination campaign in Bulgaria

The National COVID Vaccination Coordination Committee (CNCAV) informs that according to data provided by the National Public Health Institute through the National Electronic Vaccinations Registry app, 38,128 people have received the coronavirus jab in the past 24 hours, with 28,019 injected with the Pfizer vaccine, 671 with the Moderna, and 9,438 with the AstraZeneca serum.

Parallel with the fourth phase of the vaccination plan we have to open additional vaccination slots, so-called "green corridors" for all willing to be inoculated against Covid-19, Prime Minister Boyko Borissov ordered at today's working meeting, with representatives of the National Operational Headquarters, vaccination task force and health minister.

North Macedonia began administering vaccinations against the coronavirus Wednesday from a first batch of 4,680 doses of Pfizer vaccines donated by neighboring Serbia over the weekend.

A doctor and head nurse in the main COVID-19 center at the infectious diseases clinic in the capital, Skopje, were the first to receive the shots.

The overexposure to medical information in the media has the opposite effect on the community, told BNR political scientist Parvan Simeonov, Executive Director of Gallup International.

Turkey's Health Ministry has taken a step aiming at speeding up daily vaccinations against COVID-19 by increasing the number of inoculation appointments.

According to the new measure introduced, vaccinations are scheduled for every five minutes in the afternoon while the appointments before noon remained unchanged at 10 minutes apart.

A debate has started in recent days regarding how coronavirus vaccinations are being prioritized, with some members of the opposition accusing the government of putting 60-64-year-olds above groups of people with medical conditions that may make them more vulnerable to Covid-19.

Britain's coronavirus vaccination program has covered all its main target groups of vulnerable people, it said on Feb. 14, hours after New Zealand, so far largely spared by the pandemic, put its largest city into lockdown.

Bulgaria faces the beginning of the third wave of coronavirus, like it happens in any pandemic, but this wave will by no means result in such high morbidity as the previous ones, told Nova TV Dr. Nikolay Brunzalov,Deputy Chairman of the Management Board of the Bulgarian Medical Union.

Turkey targets to vaccine 60% of its population, with the second doses of vaccines for people who got the first jab starting on Feb. 11, the country's health minister said on Feb. 10.

Greece's Digital Governance Ministry has released further guidelines on booking appointments for Covid-19 vaccines.

It specified that only those who registered on the online platform more than a week before the start of their age-group's vaccinations will receive a text message to pre-book an appointment.