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Bulgaria to pay pensioners to get vaccine
By EUobserver
Bulgarian pensioners who get their first or second vaccine dose in the next six months will get a one-off payment of some €40 Bulgarian prime minister Kiril Petkov said Thursday. Those who already had three shots can also benefit, he added. "Our government's priority is ... to ease the pressure on hospitals and mainly to protect our elderly," Petkov said, amid a national vaccination-rate of just 27 percent.