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Bulgaria calls for 1 million COVID-19 test kits through EU framework

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The Bulgarian National Assembly has adopted the veto that President Rumen Radev imposed on controversial texts in the Emergency Measures Act, voted on because of the coronavirus epidemic. The President's motives are that some provisions violated the right of free speech and that there was no definition of „unjustifiably high prices" in proposed anti-speculation measures.

Prime Minister Boyko Borissov announced that Bulgaria has requested 1 million tests for COVID-19 in the framework of a common European order within the EU. This way a bigger part of the population could be tested. Currently, only patients who are ill or with symptoms of infection are tested for the virus, PM Borissov said.




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