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Covid-19 in Bulgaria: Day 213

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Covid-19 morbidity rate in Bulgarian schools is low

Less than 100 out of 720,000 Bulgarian students have been diagnosed with Covid-19. It became clear from a statement of this country’s Deputy Minister of Education and Science Tanya Mihaylova. Currently, pupils from 52 classes have been placed under mandatory quarantine. In other words, Covid-19 Morbidity rate in Bulgarian schools is low, Deputy Minister Mihaylova said and called on the children and their parents to avoid random social contacts. 

Schools need psychologists amid coronavirus crisis

Schools need psychologists amid the coronavirus crisis, Yana Alexieva, Chief Executive of Parents Association said for BNR. In her view, the panic that was caused in the beginning of the school year did not have a good effect on students. “We now expect the schools to re-socialize children in the learning process, not just bring them closer to their classmates”, Yana Alexieva said and assured that both schools and kindergartens comply with safety measures and ensure a safe environment.

7.6% of latests PCR tests return positive

The new cases of Covid-19 in Bulgaria are 283, or 7.62% of a total of 3,713 PCR tests performed during the past 24 hours. Most of new cases were registered in Sofia – 62; in Plovdiv - 40, in Blagoevgrad - 24. This is shown by the data of the Single Information Portal. Ten people have passed away and 59 patients are in intensive care wards. 165 patients hreve covered during the past day. The active cases are 5 837. Since the beginning of the pandemic in Bulgaria, 546,789 tests have been done. Out of these, 21,870 were positive Covid-19 cases. A total of 15,179 people recovered from the virus.

Balance of Bulgaria’s state budget to remain positive by end 2020: expert

A surplus to the tune of EUR 450 million has been registered in Bulgaria’s state budget in the first nine months of 2020. A lot of money is to be spent in the last months of 2020 for another consecutive year. The big surplus is due to capital expenditure. Therefore, it does not seem to me that there will be serious amendment to the state budget, Petar Ganev from the Institute for Market Economics commented for BNR. Petar Ganev predicted that it is unlikely that the European Union will suspend EU funds for Bulgaria in 2021. On the opposite, more money is to be absorbed in this period to address the coronavirus crisis, the expert contends. However, the budget deficit will be higher due to the measures adopted against the Covid-19 crisis. 

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Compiled by: Diana Tsankova






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