Newly registered cases of Covid-19 are less than 3 percent

163 new cases of Covid-19 have been registered in Bulgaria in the past 24 hours after 5,443 PCR tests performed, data of the Single Coronavirus Information Portal show. A total of 11,760 patients have recovered from the virus until now, 145 of whom in the past 24 hours. 758 people are receiving medical treatment in hospitals, of whom 63 are in intensive care units. 6 people have died of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the death toll to 648 people. 321 doctors and 306 nurses have been infected with Covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic.

State aid for business keeps unemployment at 7.9%

Between March 13 and June 30, nearly 180,000 people have kept their jobs in more than 25,000 companies due to the initial version of the 60/40 wage support scheme. Between July 15 and August 27 a total of 3,776 applications for compensations of 119,754 employees were submitted, this country’s Ministry of Labor and Social Policy announced. Nearly EUR 164 million was paid in compensations until now. Another 300,000 job positions will be kept until the end of 2020. EUR 250 million was allocated for this purpose. Unemployment levels would have soared to 14% if the abovementioned measured were not adopted. Now, Bulgaria’s unemployment stands at 7.9% the Social Ministry says, quoted by BTA.

Number of infected in EU and UK is growing

There has been an increase in Covid-19 infections in the EU and the UK over the past five weeks, Andrea Ammon, director of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control said at the European Parliament. She added that the growth is slower than in early March, but tends to return to the figures from this period. "The declines and increases will continue, as long as there are even a small number of infected, everyone is in danger," she added. Andrea Ammon clarified that the evidence for the role that the school could play in the transmission of the infection is currently being studied, correspondent of the Bulgarian National Radio in Brussels Angelina Piskova reported.

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Editor: Gergana Mancheva