Covid-19 in Bulgaria: Day 338 published on 2/8/21 7:25 PM
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Health authorities in Bulgaria decide to accelerate vaccination against Covid-19
All delivered quantities of the AstraZeneca vaccine should be used for administering the first dose of the vaccination, Bulgaria s National Vaccine Task Force decided. This will cover larger groups of the population and will speed up immunization. The vaccine body will recommend that medical professionals administer the second dose of the vaccine 10 weeks after the first.
The members of the vaccination authorities expressed the opinion that the Oxford vaccine can be used for vaccination of all Bulgarian citizens over 18 years of age, the Bulgarian Ministry of Health announced.
Ljubljana/Luxembourg – The European Investment Bank (EIB) is ready to help Slovenia financially after the Covid-19 crisis, EIB vice-president Lilyana Pavlova told the press on Friday. Finance Minister Andrej Šircelj stressed the importance of investment for post-epidemic recovery.
The EIB has been active in Slovenia since 1977 and in this period it has allocated more than EUR 7 billion for various projects, Pavlova noted. In the last decade alone, it has invested over EUR 3.7 billion to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and infrastructural projects.
Despite the coronavirus crisis, 2020 was a very good year for partnership with Slovenia, according to Pavlova. The EIB group approved EUR 254 million in financing to the country last year, including EUR 33 million through the European Investment Fund (EIF) and EUR 221 million through the EU’s in-house bank, which is 20% more than in 2019.
EIF, six Bulgarian lenders to back SMEs and mid-caps with up to 800 mln euro Author: Ken Teegardin. Licence: Creative Commons, Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic.
SOFIA (Bulgaria), January 22 (SeeNews) - The European Investment Fund (EIF) said that together with six Bulgarian commercial banks it will support local small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and mid-cap companies through a new guarantee instrument expected to generate up to 800 million euro ($973.4 million) of financing and documentary credit.
The financing will be made available through Bulgaria-based ProCredit Bank, United Bulgarian Bank, Eurobank Bulgaria, Raiffeisenbank, UniCredit Bulbank and DSK Bank, the EIF said in a statement on Thursday.
The new guarantee instrument supports working capital loans to hard-hit small businesses in Bulgaria that are facing disruption in their production or sales and are therefore affected by a liquidity squeeze due to the pandemic.
EIB Vice-President meets with Serbian PM to discuss investment plans
The EIB reaffirmed its commitment to help the region in its COVID-19 recovery and to support private sector development and the region’s transformation into a greener and more digitalised economy.EIB | Belgrade | Updated: 19-01-2021 21:50 IST | Created: 19-01-2021 21:50 IST
The EIB expressed its support for rolling out the Economic and Investment Plan in Serbia for investments in green and digital projects and the creation of a common regional market. Image Credit: Twitter(@EIB)
EIB Vice-President Lilyana Pavlova, responsible for operations in the Western Balkans, met with Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabić today in an online meeting to discuss the European Investment Bank s (EIB s) investment plans for Serbia. The EIB reaffirmed its commitment to help the region in its COVID-19 recovery and to support private sector development and the region s transformation into a greener and more digitalised economy.