Ministry of Health

The emergency authorization application for the domestically developed COVID-19 vaccine, Turkovac, has been submitted to the Turkish Medicines and Medical Devices Agency (TİTCK), Health Minister Fahrettin Koca has announced.

Yesterday the Minister of Health Dr. Stoycho Katsarov, the Deputy Minister of Health Dr. Alexander Zlatanov, the Acting Chief State Health Inspector Dr. Radosveta Filipova, Prof.

As he points out, COVID passes are being introduced to protect lives.
"We will wait for seven to ten days, and if there is a positive effect of COVID passes, we will be satisfied, if not, the Ministry will ask for more rigorous and much more effective measures at the Crisis Staff," Djerlek pointed out.

Panagiotis Arkoumaneas submitted his resignation from the presidency of the National Public Health Organization (EODY) today, Saturday.

Bulgaria once again topped the grim list of deaths from COVID-19. It is the leader in the ranking per 1 million population.

According to data for the last 7 days, the country ranks first among EU countries with 5.3 deaths per million population. The source is Johns Hopkins University, which can be found on the website Our world in data.

The Ministry of Health with an explanation of the order for the new measures

There is no tightening of the measures, on the contrary, with the new order, the restaurateurs could now work at 100%, not as before at 50%. This was stated by the Caretaker Minister of Health Stoycho Katsarov.

"There Is Such a People" party issued an official declaration on the development of the epidemiological situation and the new restrictions imposed by the Ministry of Health.

The Caretaker Minister of Health Dr. Stoycho Katsarov and the management of the associations of hospitals in the country discussed the measures that should be taken in connection with the expected increase in the incidence of COVID-19 in the country, the Ministry of Health announced.

Prime Minister Florin Citu stated on Wednesday that the authorities will keep up "all efforts" to convince citizens that the solution to end the pandemic is vaccination, emphasizing that, on the other hand, it is the responsibility of each person in Romania to protect their own health and family through anti-COVID immunization.

Minister of Health Ioana Mihaila had a meeting on Friday with the European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Stella Kyriakides, in which context the former transmitted that Romania continues the efforts to increase the number of COVID-19 vaccinated people.