Helen Petousis-Harris

The Ministry of Health in Bulgaria has announced a significant initiative to provide free whooping cough vaccines to all pregnant women between 27 to 36 weeks of gestation. Dr. Galya Kondeva, the Minister of Health, revealed this decision during a briefing held at the Council of Ministers.

Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE have started an international study with 4,000 volunteers to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of their COVID-19 vaccine in healthy pregnant women, the companies said on Thursday.

All existing measures remain in force, it was decided at today's session of the Crisis Staff for combating coronavirus, epidemiologist Branislav Tiodorovi said.
He said that the current improvement of the epidemiological situation should not deceive us to think that "we are in a controlled situation".

We are following with concern the fact that the chronically ill and the elderly are ranked further in the vaccination plan. This was stated to BNR by Dr. Stanimir Hasardjiev, chairman of the National Patient Organization.

They received the vaccine at the Torlak Institute while it was aired live on television.
Ana Brnabi was the first to sit down and thus became the first European Prime Minister to be vaccinated against coronavirus.

Namely, as that portal writes, Switzerland and Serbia have already started that process before the EU.
Switzerland became the first country in continental Europe to start vaccination with the BioNTech / Pfizer company on Wednesday, and the first to receive the vaccine was a 90-year-old woman from Lucerne.

This is envisaged by the plan adopted today by the National Coordination Team for COVID-19 Immunization.