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The goal is to reduce the impact of COVID-19 on the health system.
The Council of Ministers has decided to extend the term of the declared emergency epidemic situation from October 1, 2020 to November 30, 2020.
The COVID-19 pandemic remains a serious national and global public health emergency, the Council of Ministers said.
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According to the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control, as of September 19, 2020, there had been 30,540,446 confirmed cases of COVID-19 worldwide. The dead are already 952,724.
The incidence in the European Union / European Economic Area and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is 2,808,711 or 9.2% of the total number of infected. The dead are 185,945.
In Bulgaria, the unfavorable development of the epidemic situation continues, due to the high mortality from infections caused by the new coronavirus, in a context of decrease in morbidity and maintenance of the level of hospital treatment of patients with moderate and severe clinical symptoms.
Kunchev will request an extension of the state of emergency for two months
“The prolongation of the epidemic emergency and the implementation of anti-epidemic measures in the country aims to reduce the impact of COVID-19 on public health and the health system. This is especially important for the protection of the health and life of people at increased risk of serious infectious diseases: the elderly, people with chronic and oncological diseases and immunosuppressed conditions, in conditions of simultaneous spread of seasonal influenza and COVID-19,.
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