Covid, Bulgaria asks for EU aid: oxygen, respirators and beds

Bulgaria asked the European Union to activate the civil protection mechanism in order to receive aid to deal with the terrible wave of Covid-19 that is hitting the country. The Bulgarian Ministry of Health, stressing that we must prepare “in the event of a sudden worsening “of the pandemic, asked to receive oxygen, respirators and beds from other EU countries. In Bulgaria in the last week there was an average of 22.8 deaths from Covid per million inhabitants, against the EU average of 3.1. This is compared to the lowest vaccination rate, just 22.8%, compared to 65.2% of the European average.