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Of 6190 PCR tests done in the past day, 1739 proved positive – about 28.09 per cent. The number of active cases decreased by 2631 in the past day, to 86 909. There are 499 fewer patients in hospital, with a current total of 6535. The number of patients in intensive care has decreased by 34, to 536. A hundred and one medical personnel tested positive in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to date to 8374. According to the national information system, 2894 people recovered from the virus in the past day, bringing the total to 96 622. To date, 190 027 people in Bulgaria have tested positive ...

It would be very easy to shut down absolutely everything, but people would not be able to cope mentally, Bulgaria’s Health Minister Kostadin Angelov said in a radio interview on December 19. “Our goal is to shut down as many dangers as possible,” Angelov told Darik Radio, the morning after his ministry posted his order detailing the anti-epidemic restrictions that will continue until January 31, to contain the spread of Covid-19 in Bulgaria. “Our decisions are not based on political considerations and political decisions,” he said. Angelov said that conclusions and ensuing decisions...

On the day that the Cabinet’s new regulations on electronic doctor referrals and medicine prescriptions went into force, Deputy Health Minister Zheni Nacheva said that some pharmacies were not prepared to disburse such prescriptions. Nacheva told Bulgarian National Radio on December 18 that “in the initial stage, it will most likely not be all pharmacies, since that depends on the software developers of those pharmacies. We will give the necessary time for all pharmacies to join.” The issuance of prescriptions on paper would continue until mid-2021, Nacheva said. Prescriptions for contr...

A total of 143 people in Bulgaria who had tested positive for Covid-19 died in the past 24 hours, bringing the country’s death toll to 6339, the national information system daily report said on December 18. Of 6825 PCR tests done in Bulgaria in the past day, 2042 proved positive – about 29.91 per cent. The number of active cases decreased by 1319 in the past 24 hours, to 88 221, the second day recently that the figure has been below the 90 000-mark. There are 6900 patients in hospital, 134 fewer than the figure in the December 17 report. Five hundred and sixty-seven are in intensive care,...

Valentin Kassabov, a member of Parliament for the ultra-nationalist United Patriots group, died on December 17 at the age of 62 after a month-long battle with Covid-19. The December 18 sitting of the National Assembly opened with a minute of silence for Kassabov, who was deputy chairman of Valeri Simeonov’s National Front for the Salvation of Bulgaria party and co-leader of the United Patriots group. Kassabov had been treated at two hospitals in Bourgas before being transferred to St Ekaterina hospital in Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia where he was treated in the intensive care unit. Among...