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Coronavirus certificate abolished

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The Covid-19 recovery and negative test certificates are being abolished, the Health Ministry has announced. By order of the minister of health, as of 4 July, these documents are no longer in effect. Vaccination certificates remain can still be issued. Vaccination certificates are the only kind of document that will be issued via the website of the National Health Information system. Should the need arise to present a document certifying a Covid-19 laboratory test or recovery, medical establishments will be able to issue a medical document containing this medical information to be used for a specific purpose.

11,279,381 laboratory tests have been performed since the start of the pandemic in Bulgaria, the number of confirmed Covid-19 cases is 1,309,093, of them 1,269,218 are reported as recovered, and 38,426 have died. 4,613,155 doses of vaccine have been administered in the country overall.

56 is the number of new Covid-19 cases registered in the country in the past 24 hours out of 1,956 tests performed, a positivity rate of 2.86%. One person with established coronavirus infection has died in the past day, Single Coronavirus Information Portal data show.



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