Bulgaria donates Vaccines to BiH

Yesterday evening, 258,570 doses of “Pfizer” vaccine donated by the Government of Bulgaria were delivered to Bosnia and Herzegovina, it was announced on the “Twitter” account of the Ministry of Civil Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Within the Law on Medicines and Medical Devices of Bosnia and Herzegovina, vaccines are distributed to the competent health institutions of the entities and the Brcko District, in proportions agreed according to the procurement mechanism and method of packaging vaccines of individual manufacturers.

An epidemiologist at the Public Health Institute of the Federation of BiH Mia Blažević says that in the last two weeks there has been a large increase in confirmed cases of COVID-19 throughout the Federation of BiH, especially in West Herzegovina Canton, Herzegovina-Neretva Canton, and Posavina Canton, where the incidence exceeds 500 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.

“We can say that this is a consequence of the holidays and the emergence of a new variant of the virus, omicron, which is spreading significantly faster compared to previous variants of SARS-CoV-2 that circulated in the Federation of BiH.

Such a jump will result in a great burden on the health system, which may increase further due to the co-circulation of other respiratory viruses, primarily influenza, which is sporadically detected (subtype A (H3)),” dr. Blažević told FENA.