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Bulgaria's Social Minister: Everyone will be able to receive a vaccine

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There will be vaccines against Covid-19 for everyone. 500,000 doses will arrive in March alone, Bulgaria's Social Affairs Minister Denitsa Sacheva announced on bTV. Equal quantities of the three vaccines approved in the European Union have been ordered, she explained.
There is no detention of delivered vaccines and the doses have already been administered, she said.
"The government has done everything necessary - it has signed contracts for vaccines, and the fact that they are delayed is a problem outside Bulgaria," Denitsa Sacheva said
More than 1 million people receive support in various forms by the state because of the pandemic, she added.



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