Send to Kindle Outgoing Health Minister Prof. Kostadin Angelov claimed that the morbidity rates in Bulgaria are lower than those in the neighboring countries and at the same time the restrictive measures in Bulgaria are more lenient than in a number of other countries. He pointed out that the downward trend in the number of newly infected is persistent and thanked all Bulgarian citizens for complying with the measures. Collective immunity has already been achieved among medical professionals, the health minister said. On a weekly basis, there are 9,774 new cases and more than 17,000 are documented as cured. Chief Health Inspector Angel Kunchev pointed out that the incidence rate of Covid-19 in Bulgaria is 332 per 100,000 on a two-week basis, which ranks our country 9th in the EU.