Prognosis
No-Shows Hobble Rollout as Poorest EU State Bulgaria Faces Vaccine Doubt
- More than half of Bulgarians aren’t planning to get vaccinated
- Two-thirds of people skip appointments for shot at hospital
Photographer: Nikolay Doychinov/AFP/Getty Images
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Front-line workers missing vaccine appointments and widespread public mistrust are crippling the rollout of shots to stop Covid-19 in the European Union member with the worst record on inoculations.
Bulgaria has administered just 1.2 doses per 100 people. That’s about a fifth of the average in the 27-member EU, which has struggled behind the U.S. and the U.K. to obtain doses and get them into the arms of its roughly 450 million citizens.