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Of 16 656 tests, 462 – about 2.85 per cent – proved positive. To date, 426 003 cases of new coronavirus have been confirmed in Bulgaria, of which 9109 are active. The number of active cases has risen by 407 in the past day. The report said that in the past day, 52 people recovered from the virus, bringing the total to 398 669. There are 914 patients with Covid-19 in hospital, an increase of 63 in the past day, with 86 in intensive care, an increase of four. Five medical personnel tested positive in the past day, bringing the total to date to 13 490. The report said that 12 389 doses of va...

Of 23 371 tests done in the past day, 393 – about 1.68 per cent – proved positive. A total of 425 541 cases of new coronavirus have been confirmed in Bulgaria, of which 8702 are active. The number of active cases rose by 323 in the past day. The report said that 63 people recovered from the virus in the past day, bringing the total to 398 617. There are 851 patients with Covid-19 in hospital in Bulgaria, an increase of 41 in the past day, with 82 in intensive care, an increase of one. To date, 13 485 medical personnel have tested positive, including nine in the past day. The report said t...

The changes take effect as of August 4. The Netherlands, Tunisia and Kuwait are reclassified from red to orange zones. Luxembourg is reclassified from an orange to a green zone, while Monaco is reclassified as a red zone country. The Bulgarian Health Ministry’s criteria for classifying a country as a Covid-19 red, orange or green zone may be found in English here. These classifications determine the rules for entry to Bulgaria. Bulgaria introduced, as The Sofia Globe reported, new rules regarding “red zone” countries as of July 29. The full list of green zone countries is Austria, Germ...

For the third consecutive week, all 28 districts in Bulgaria were classified as green zones in the report by the National Centre for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases (NCIPD) covering the 14-day period up to August 1. The classification of all districts as green zones is in line with the changed thresholds put into use by the NCIPD as of July 18. Currently, to be a green zone, a district should have an infection rate lower than 100 per 100 000 population. In previous months, the threshold was less than 20 per 100 000 population. The NCIPD report released on August 3 also shows an overall tren...

prolongation of the epidemic declaration to August 31. The Sofia Globe previously reported on the travel restrictions order, issued by Katsarov on July 27 and amended on July 28 (available in English, here, including the current list of “red zone” countries). The change was to clarify that Bulgarian nationals and permanent residents travelling from a country on the “red zone” list would be put in 10-day quarantine if they presented only a vaccination/recovery certificate or negative PCR test, but not both. It also said that the quarantine could be lifted if they had a negative PCR t...