Influenza vaccines

Pharmacists are urging people at high risk of contracting severe influenza to get the flu shot. This is essential, they stressed, to develop immunity before the start of the flu season, expected in mid- to late December.

The new cases of COVID-19 in Bulgaria are 278, five patients have died, according to the data of the Unified Information Portal.

In the last 24 hours, 2,655 tests were performed, which means that 10 percent of those tested gave positive results. 51% of new cases were not vaccinated.

The new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Bulgaria in the last 24 hours are 129, according to the data of the Unified Information Portal. They were established from the 3,685 tests performed, which means that the proportion of positive results is 3.5 percent.

Turkey's confirmed cases of the coronavirus increased by 864 in the past 24 hours, and 2 more people have died, the Health Ministry announced on May 29.

The ministry's infographic said that some 1,107 patients recovered in the last 24 hours.

It also added that 129,961 tests were conducted over the past day.

"The good thing about Omicron is that a very low percentage of people are admitted to hospitals and a very low percentage have severe symptoms of the disease." This was said on the Bulgarian National Radio by Prof. Todor Kantardzhiev, advisor to the Sofia Municipality on health issues and former director of the National Center for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases.

With the approval of a contract in Brussels, the vaccine of the European manufacturer Valneva against coronavirus regained the attention that these products initially received, and the company's shares rose.

Ljubljana – The National Institute of Public Health (NIJZ) has ordered 360,000 doses of flu vaccine for this season, which is more than last year, when demand exceeded expectation. It is not clear yet whether the vaccine will be available for free this year as well. Flu vaccination usually starts in October.

Today, vaccination with Oxford/AstraZeneca begins at Pirogov emergency hospital. Among those vaccinated will be a member of the Central Electoral Commission, the Health Ministry said.

The first doses of the vaccine made by the Pfizer and BioNtech companies will arrive in Serbia this week, Pavle Zelic, from the Serbia's Agency for Medicines, said on Monday.

The Chinese are the most eager to take the vaccine