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Three days after Bulgaria’s government announced that the national response staff against Covid-19 was being disbanded, outgoing Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov said on April 18 that he had ordered that it resume operations. Borissov’s GERB party objected to that latter vote, saying that it was not required by the constitution and could call into question the legality of decisions made by the outgoing government, which remains in place in an acting capacity until a new one takes office. Borissov told a briefing that he had ordered Health Minister Kostadin Angelov to bring back the...

A total of 121 people in Bulgaria who had tested positive for Covid-19 died in the past 24 hours, which takes the country’s death toll linked to the disease above the 15 000-mark, to 15 100, according to the April 17 daily report by the national information system. Bulgaria passed the 14 000-mark in its Covid-19 death toll on April 7, and the 13 000-mark on March 30. According to the national information system, of 15 638 tests done in the past day, 2126 – about 13.5 per cent – proved positive. To date, 384 887 cases of new coronavirus have been confirmed in Bulgaria, counting in those ...

A total of 108 people in Bulgaria who had tested positive for Covid-19 died in the past 24 hours, bringing the country’s death linked to the disease to 14 979, according to the April 16 report by the national information system. Of 14 747 tests done in the past 24 hours, 2185 – about 14.9 per cent – proved positive. To date, 382 761 cases of new coronavirus have been confirmed in Bulgaria. There are 67 391 active cases, 1316 fewer than the figure in the April 15 report. A total of 9523 patients with Covid-19 are in hospital, a decrease of 162 in the past 24 hours, with 811 in intensive ...

The outgoing government will make a decision after April 26 about whether to extend the Covid-19 epidemic declaration beyond the end of this month, if that by that time there is no new government in place to make the decision, Health Minister Kostadin Angelov told a news conference on April 16. The weekly briefings on the Covid-19 situation in Bulgaria are continuing in spite of the decision by Prime Minister Boiko Borissov, announced on the night of April 15, to disband the national Covid-19 response staff. Angelov defended Borissov’s decision as “logical” because Borissov’s term as ...

There were sharp political reactions following the decision by outgoing Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov to disband the national Covid-19 response staff. Stanislav Balabanov, of Slavi Trifonov’s party – the second-largest group in the new National Assembly – said that if the party had the opportunity to form a government, it would come up with “a real headquarters with real professionals”. “An abdominal surgeon cannot, with all due respect, manage a pandemic,” he said, in an apparent reference to Major-General Ventsislav Mutafchiyski, who headed the response staff from th...