Podcast in English
Text size
Bulgarian National Radio © 2024 All Rights Reserved

Deputy chair of parliamentary health committee proposes funding for vaccination awareness campaign to deliver “powerful messages”

Dr. Alexander Simidchiev, deputy chair of the parliamentary healthcare committee
Photo: BGNES, archive

Dr. Alexander Simidchiev, deputy chair of the parliamentary healthcare committee has proposed, to the MPs, the allocation of funding for a vaccination awareness campaign to deliver “powerful messages”. Bulgaria continues to be last, among the EU countries, with a mere 15% of vaccination coverage.

“We are not talking theory, we are talking about very real data – two of the regions of the country are now in the red zone, another two are on the verge of the red zone,” Alexander Simidchiev said in an interview for Nova TV, and added that the new wave of Covid-19 is going to come right before the start of the school year.

“We are going to repeat something we are familiar with, because we keep doing the same thing over and over again. The measures are just on paper, they are not being implemented in practice,” Dr. Simidchiev said. He stated that the infection levels will peak if the level of collective immunity remains low.



Последвайте ни и в Google News Showcase, за да научите най-важното от деня!
Listen to the daily news from Bulgaria presented in "Bulgaria Today" podcast, available in Spotify.

More from category

Bulgaria will take the necessary actions related to the energy transition

EUR 479 million are the grants allocated to Bulgaria under the RePowerEU chapter which is part of the Recovery and Resilience Plan.   By the end of last year, our country could have received 30% of this resource in advance. At a   hearing of..

published on 7/30/24 6:20 PM

Evacuation of villages near the border with North Macedonia has begun

The BG-ALERT system has issued an evacuation warning for the residents of five villages in the municipality of Strumyani due to the large fire that broke out in the area of the Maleshevska Mountain near the border with North Macedonia. The fire..

published on 7/30/24 5:37 PM
MP Toshko Yordanov from There is Such a People party

There are no prospects for forming a government with the third mandate

The first meeting organized by There is Such a People party (ITN) to seek support for the formation of a government with the third mandate ended in failure.  Talks were scheduled with six MPs who left the former Velichie Group and are close to the..

published on 7/30/24 5:09 PM