Life sciences

2,042 are the new cases of COVID-19 for the last 24 hours in Bulgaria. 6 825 PCR tests were performed. Nearly 30 percent of them are positive. This is shown by the data on the Unified Information Portal.

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Most new cases are in Sofia - 361, followed by Varna - with 207 and Burgas - 202 new cases.

The national information platform on vaccination against COVID-19 informed on Thursday that the BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine will be used in the European Union only after a careful scientific evaluation attesting that it meets all the conditions provided for in the existing rules.

The European Union will take up its option to buy up to 100 million more doses of Pfizer and BioNTech's Covid-19 vaccine after turning down an opportunity in July for a much bigger deal, according to EU officials and an internal document.

European Union member states will begin vaccinations against Covid-19 in 10 days, Germany said, as Europe tries to catch up with Britain and the United States after what some have criticized as a slow EU approval process for the jabs.

Greece expects to receive 300,000 Covid-19 vaccine doses in the first tranche, which means that 150,000 people will be vaccinated initially (vaccines will require two doses per patient), government spokesman Stelios Petsas told Parapolitika radio on Wednesday. 

Petsas said that the immunization program will be launched in December or January.

This is the first real epidemic wave for Bulgaria. It will begin to subside, but we must have to be patient as in any pandemic. We have every reason to expect another wave, said  epidemiologist Assoc. Prof. Mira Kozhuharova on Nova TV.

According to him, the plan is for two to four million people in Serbia to receive the vaccine.
That means, according to Kurir, for which Dr Djerlek gave an interview, that in the best case scenario, in the middle of 2022, we will return to normal life, without masks and keeping distance.

Britain has agreed to spend 3.7 billion pounds on Covid-19 vaccines and in most cases will bear the liability if claims are made against the pharmaceutical companies involved.

"At this stage, I think it's good not to loosen the measures too much. You can see that measures are being tightened everywhere in Europe. "This was stated by Prof. Georgi Momekov - Chairman of the Bulgarian Scientific Society of Pharmacy.

"In Bulgaria the mortality rate is about 3.2%, and worldwide it is 2.2%. Vaccination is the thing that will give hope in this battle." This was stated to BNT by Dr. Georgi Mindov, Chairman of the Society of Sofia General Practitioners.