Bulgaria’s national vaccination task force decided on April 22 that “
green corridors” for vaccinations against Covid-19 for all comers will be opened from April 30 to May 9, the Health Ministry said in a media statement.
Vaccines of the mRNA type will be on offer. Such vaccines include the BioNTech-Pfizer and Moderna jabs.
The statement said that the regional health inspectorates will make the necessary arrangements and details of the vaccination points will be announced on April 26.
Fifty per cent of the vaccines that will be delivered will be distributed to general practitioners, who will continue the implementation of phase four of the national vaccination plan.
There had been no severe side-effects among the more than 235 000 people in Bulgaria who had received the AstraZeneca vaccination against Covid-19, national vaccination headquarters chief Professor Krassimir Gigov told Bulgarian National Radio on April 9.
Gigov said that the number of cases of side effects in EU countries after the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine were very small.
If a person had not experienced severe side-effects after the first dose, there should be no problem with the second, he said.
There was no scientific justification for using a vaccine for the second dose that was different from the first, Gigov said.