In-person training in language centers resumes
As of today, in-person training in language, educational and training centers is allowed. The facilities are required to ensure disinfection and physical distance of at least 1.5 meters between visitors. People are also required to wear face masks, reads the order of Bulgaria’s outgoing Minister of Health Professor Kostadin Angelov. A decision was also made to return the audience to the stadiums at 30% of the capacity, but with no more than 1,000 people per sector. The sports facilities are required to ensure physical distance of at least 1.5 meters between visitors. Wearing of masks is mandatory.
Fourteen-day incidence rate falls below 400 Covid-19 cases per 100,000 people
The fourteen-day Covid-19 morbidity rate has dropped below 400 cases per 100,000 people, said for BTV Professor Todor Kantardzhiev, Director of the National Center of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases. Despite the positive trend, we have not yet emerged from the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, said Todor Kantardzhiev. In his words, when a country passes the peak of Covid-19 morbidity, the mortality rate increases and the number of Covid-19 hospitalizations remains constant for another 2 or 3 weeks. There will be few cases of Covid-19 in Bulgaria later during the autumn, mainly local clusters of Covid-19 cases, predicts the health expert.
Dr. Abdullah Zargar: small towns and villages need young doctors
The hospital in Isperih is coping better with the third wave of Covid-19, its former director Dr. Abdullah Zargar said in an interview for BNR. The story of the Iranian doctor, who settled in Bulgaria almost 20 years ago, touched the people of Bulgaria. Thousands of patients supported their favorite orthopedist and signed a petition in support of his Bulgarian citizenship. Dr. Abdullah Zargar was granted Bulgarian citizenship in February this year. Like other Bulgarian hospitals, the staff shortage remains a major problem in Isperih's hospital. Dr. Zargar hopes that the young doctors will not leave Bulgaria and will go to small towns and villages instead.
Bulgaria reports 1,708 new cases of Covid-19
1,708 new cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed in Bulgaria in the past 24 hours out of 14,888 tests performed. More than 11% of the tests have returned positive result. 29 medics have been diagnosed with Covid-19 in the past day. The highest number of new infections were reported in Sofia-389, followed by Plovdiv-183, Varna-133 and Burgas-92. 8,073 patients are being treated in hospital, 751 of them in intensive care units. 105 people have died and 2,477 have recovered in the past 24 hours.18,423 Covid-19 vaccines have been administered in Bulgaria in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of inoculations against the novel coronavirus to more than 716, 000. More than 160,000 people have received their second vaccine dose.
Compiled by: Darina Grigorova
English version: Kostadin Atanasov
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