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New cases of coronavirus in Bulgaria

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12 workers from the railway car repair plant in the town of Septemvri near Pazardzhik have tested positive for Covid-19. The people are from 8 villages in the municipality. Persons who were in contact with them are under quarantine.

Covid-19 was also registered in a kindergarten in Sofia. A mother and child tested positive. No one is infected among the staff at the 185th kindergarten in the Druzhba quarter, Sofia Mayor Yordanka Fandakova has told BNR. On June 29, the kindergarten will be closed for disinfection.

Because of two raspberry pickers with positive tests who returned from Belgium to the village of Zvezditsa, Omurtag municipality, gatherings of more than three people there was banned. Because of the pandemic, by mid-July, mass events are banned in 5 villages in the municipality of Isperih.



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