10.06.2020  

THE TERM OF THE EMERGENCY EPIDEMIC SITUATION IS EXTENDED UNTIL JUNE 30

The Council of Ministers of the Republic of Bulgaria today adopted a Decision to extend the duration of the emergency epidemic situation declared by Decision № 325 of 14 May 2020 until 30 June 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic continues to be a severe public health emergency in national and global. The data accumulated so far in the country show that the introduced measures regarding early detection, isolation and treatment of patients, as well as timely detection and quarantine of contact persons helped to locate and limit the spread of the disease to local outbreaks. The implementation of anti-epidemic measures has contributed to slowing down the development of the COVID-19 epidemic in the country and reducing the pressure on the healthcare system. The prolongation of the emergency epidemic situation will help through the application of temporary anti-epidemic measures, incl. and quarantine of persons entering the country, to slow down and limit the spread of the COVID-19 epidemic, to create sustainability in the implementation of basic measures, to improve the preparedness of the health and social system for response to a subsequent wave and to create an opportunity for a change in the scope and content of the measures with the emergence of new scientific data on the causative agent, routes of transmission, methods of protection and treatment.