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Caretaker cabinet approves financial stimulus for businesses, frontline workers

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Bulgaria's caretaker government has provided an additional BGN 61 million (EUR 31 million) to the Ministry of Health to continue paying bonuses of BGN 1,000 (EUR 511) to medical and non-medical personnel on the front lines in the fight against Covid-19.

The cabinet also allocated BGN 100 million /over EUR 50 million/ to the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy under the employment measure for compensations to employees and self-insured persons from closed businesses.



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