site.btaFuture Plant in Razgrad to Make COVID-19 Vaccines, among Other Products - Prime Minister

March 20 (BTA) - A new plant which will be built in the northeastern town of Razgrad in three months will produce human vaccines, including vaccines against COVID-19, as well as vaccines for veterinary use, Prime Minister Boyko Borissov said on Saturday. To this end, he said, the Biovet company has invested about 120 million leva, the government press service reported.

Borissov was inspecting the construction of the new manufacturing facility in Razgrad. A video of the inspection was posted on the Prime Minister's Facebook page.

He said he has notified the European Commission about the planned output capacity of the future plant, its equipment and technical characteristics. Biovet's investment project in Razgrad is worth 400 million leva in total. It will create 350 new jobs. It involves building an extension to an existing installation for intermediate products, an installation for immunogenic pharmaceutical products and a photovoltaic power plant.

Later in the day, Borissov visited the Danube River ferry terminal at Silistra. He recommended that the ferry run round the clock, not just 12 hours a day. "The fact that there are trucks on the road means that the economy is working," he said.

Borissov also commented on Thursday's raid against an espionage group. Five Bulgarian military, both on active duty and former ones, were detained on suspicion of passing classified information to Russia in what the Prosecutor General's Spokesperson Siika Mileva described as a "spy ring". A woman of dual Bulgarian-Russian citizenship was also arrested in the case.

Commenting on the case, the Prime Minister congratulated the prosecution magistracy and the special services for the job they have done. "This is one more case in which Bulgaria has to declare Russian diplomats persona non grata. I want to use the occasion to tell their leaders: stop spying in Bulgaria," he said. RI/VE
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bs. It involves building an extension to an existing installation for intermediate products, an installation for immunogenic pharmaceutical products and a photovoltaic power plant.

Later in the day, Borissov visited the Danube River ferry terminal at Silistra. He recommended that the ferry run round the clock, not just 12 hours a day. "The fact that there are trucks on the road means that the economy is working," he said.

Borissov also commented on Thursday's raid against an espionage group. Five Bulgarian military, both on active duty and former ones, were detained on suspicion of passing classified information to Russia in what the Prosecutor General's Spokesperson Siika Mileva described as a "spy ring". A woman of dual Bulgarian-Russian citizenship was also arrested in the case.

Commenting on the case, the Prime Minister congratulated the prosecution magistracy and the special services for the job they have done. "This is one more case in which Bulgaria has to declare Russian diplomats persona non grata. I want to use the occasion to tell their leaders: stop spying in Bulgaria," he said. RI/VE
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