University classes to stop under proposed COVID-19 measures

Bulgaria cannot afford to lose lives of patients and doctors. With this main motive, Bulgaria’s Minister of Health Kostadin Angelov on 23 November proposed new strict and restrictive measures which, if approved, were due to come into effect on Friday 27 November, reports BNT News.

The proposed measures include an extension of the state of epidemic emergency by four months until the end of March 2021; the suspension of attendance at universities, schools, kindergartens and nurseries; the suspension of all group sport events, congresses, seminars, competitions, including privately organised celebrations; a continuation of the ban on visits to discos, piano bars and nightclubs; and a suspension of the work of the food and entertainment establishments; and suspension of all non-food stores with the exception of pharmacies, drugstores, postal service providers, banks, insurers and payment service providers.

There are more than 2,000 medical professionals in Bulgaria who have tested positive for the virus, 30% of whom are doctors and 32% nurses, said the head of Pirogov emergency hospital, Professor Asen Baltov. Colleagues have not left the wards for a month, said the head of the Alexandrovska Hospital, Professor Boris Bogov. He called on medical students to join the COVID wards.
Full report on the BNT News site