Bulgaria reports 4 cases of side effects from Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine

By : Sputnik

Date: 4 January 2021 3:00pm WAT

(FILES) In this file photo David de la Zerda, ICU Medical Director at Jackson Memorial Hospital, receives a Pfizer-BioNtech Covid-19 vaccine at Jackson Memorial Hospital, in Miami, Florida on December 15, 2020. - The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said on December 17, 2020 it was working with Pfizer to revise a fact sheet for recipients of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine after two people had allergic reactions. The two people, both health workers, were vaccinated in Alaska and one of them had a serious or "anaphylactic" reaction resulting in hospitalization. (Photo by Eva Marie UZCATEGUI / AFP)

Four Bulgarians vaccinated against the Coronavirus (COVID-19) with the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine developed mild to moderate side effects, Bulgarian Drug Agency executive director Bogdan Kirilov said on Monday.

Bulgaria’s vaccination campaign began on Dec. 27 among the priority group including medical workers.
By Monday, nearly 5,000 people had been inoculated.

“Side effects ranged from mild to moderate.
The persons who experienced them have already recovered,” Kirilov said, as quoted by the Bulgarian National Radio.

According to the official, the side effects included two cases of pain, one case of dizziness, and one case of insignificant temperature rise.

Earlier in the day, Bulgaria received the second shipment of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, consisting of 25,000 doses.
According to Health Minister Kostadin Angelov, the mass vaccination in Bulgaria would likely begin sometime in the February-March period.