COVID-19 pandemic in Bulgaria

The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have spread to Bulgaria in March 2020.

COVID-19 pandemic in Bulgaria
Number of confirmed cases in Bulgaria by province (as of 7 May)[1]
  0 confirmed
  1–9 confirmed
  10–49 confirmed
  50–99 confirmed
  100+ confirmed
DiseaseCOVID-19
Virus strainSARS-CoV-2
LocationBulgaria
First outbreakWuhan, Hubei, China (globally)
Index casePleven, Gabrovo
Arrival date8 March 2020
Confirmed cases2,100
Active cases1,480
Recovered521
Deaths
99
Government website
Bulgarian Ministry of Health
Coronavirus.bg

Cases

The first case was confirmed on 8 March 2020, a 27-year-old man from Pleven and a 75-year-old woman from Gabrovo. Neither of the two had traveled to areas with known coronavirus(-19) cases. The man tested positive for the virus after being hospitalized for a respiratory infection.[2] Two other samples in Pleven and Gabrovo were positive on 8 March.[3]

Response

After the number of patients in the country had reached 23, the Bulgarian Parliament voted unanimously to declare a state of emergency from 13 March until 13 April.[4]

A 14-day preventive house quarantine was made for citizens who have been in contact with a COVID-19 patient or have returned from an overseas region with a high number of cases.

For patients tested positive for the virus a 21-day house quarantine was created. The National Crisis-management Staff later increased the recovery house quarantine by a week to 28 days.[5] With the continuing increase of COVID-19 cases on a daily basis, on 1 April the Bulgarian government requested that Parliament extends the state of emergency by one month until 13 May.[6]

Numbers

As of 14 May 2020, there are 2,100 officially confirmed cases spread throughout all Bulgarian provinces, with 99 recorded deaths and 521 recoveries. A total of 61,711 PCR tests (or 8,868 per million citizens) had been performed by 13 May, with 3.40% being positive.[7]

References
  1. "Коронавирус COVID-19 на територията на България". ESRI Bulgaria: COVID-19 Tracker (in Bulgarian). 28 March 2020. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
  2. "Bulgaria, Moldova Report First Coronavirus Cases". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. 8 March 2020.
  3. "Проф. Тодор Кантарджиев: От Плевен имаме две положителни проби за коронавирус, от Габрово също" (in Bulgarian). 8 March 2020. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  4. "НС прие с пълно единодушие обявяването на извънредно положение в цялата страна - По света и у нас". news.bnt.bg (in Bulgarian). Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  5. "28-дневна карантина за заразени с коронавирус - България". dariknews.bg (in Bulgarian). Retrieved 2020-04-01.
  6. "Коронавирус: В България удължават извънредното положение". Deutsche Welle (in Bulgarian). 1 April 2020. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
  7. "Новини". coronavirus.bg (in Bulgarian). Retrieved 2020-04-22.
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