Arrivals in Bulgaria from United Arab Emirates no longer required to show negative PCR test
As of today, 11 August, arrivals in Bulgaria from the United Arab Emirates are not required to have a negative PCR test, reads an order by Minister of Health Prof. Kostadin Angelov from today. A negative PCR test is not required of persons arriving in Bulgaria from the countries members of the EU, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Schengen area countries, as well as Australia, Canada, Georgia, Japan, New Zealand, Rwanda, the Republic of Korea, Thailand, Tunisia, Uruguay and Ukraine. They are not subject to 14-day quarantine either.
116 new Covid-19 cases confirmed over past 24 hours, or 3.16% of all PCR tests
116 new Covid-19 cases have been confirmed in Bulgaria over the past 24 hours, or 3.16% of the 3,667 PCR performed, single information portal data as of midnight show.854 coronavirus patients are in hospital, 54- in intensive care.12 people with coronavirus have died over the past 24 hours, 208 have recovered.13,512 is the number of confirmed novel coronavirus cases in Bulgaria since the start of the pandemic, of then 5,073 are active.
Dr. Angel Kunchev: Circulation of coronavirus in Dobrich is intense
The management of the hospital in Dobrich will be changed, said Minister of Health Prof. Kostadin Angelov. He visited the city together with the Chief Health Inspector Dr. Angel Kunchev because of the complicated situation related to the coronavirus, BNR correspondent in the city Maya Shtarbanova has reported.
ER in Burgas wants police protection
The general hospital in Burgas on the Black Sea is insisting on having a permanent police post in front of the emergency room at night. The reason is the increasing number of incidents involving aggression by patients or their relatives, including attacks on medical staff at night. The medical staff is working under constant stress and in fear. The police have been called in several times this weekend alone. “If our colleagues quit, Burgas will be left without emergency doctors and without an emergency unit,” commented the head of the ER Dr. Zdravka Indzhova, BNR-Burgas reports.
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Compiled by: Elena Karkalanova
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