COVID-19 pandemic in Bulgaria

COVID-19 pandemic in Bulgaria
COVID-19 pandemic in Bulgaria
	Number of confirmed cases in Bulgaria by province (as of 7 May) 0 confirmed 1–9 confirmed 10–49 confirmed 50–99 confirmed 100+ confirmed
Disease	COVID-19
Virus strain	SARS-CoV-2
Location	Bulgaria
First outbreak	Wuhan, Hubei, China (globally)
Index case	Pleven, Gabrovo
Arrival date	8 March 2020
Confirmed cases	2,100
Active cases	1,480
Recovered	521
Deaths	99
Government website
	Bulgarian Ministry of Health; Coronavirus.bg

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

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]

Related pages

MERS and MERS-CoV
Aspiration (pneumonia)
COVID-19 in China.
Pancreas

References

↑ "Коронавирус COVID-19 на територията на България". ESRI Bulgaria: COVID-19 Tracker (in Bulgarian). 28 March 2020. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
↑ "Bulgaria, Moldova Report First Coronavirus Cases". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. 8 March 2020.
↑ "Проф. Тодор Кантарджиев: От Плевен имаме две положителни проби за коронавирус, от Габрово също" (in Bulgarian). 8 March 2020. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
↑ "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.
↑ "28-дневна карантина за заразени с коронавирус - България". dariknews.bg (in Bulgarian). Retrieved 2020-04-01.
↑ "Коронавирус: В България удължават извънредното положение". Deutsche Welle (in Bulgarian). 1 April 2020. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
↑ "Новини". coronavirus.bg (in Bulgarian). Archived from the original on 2020-05-05. Retrieved 2020-04-22.

[ESRI-1] "Коронавирус COVID-19 на територията на България". ESRI Bulgaria: COVID-19 Tracker (in Bulgarian). 28 March 2020. Retrieved 29 March 2020.

[rferl.org-2] "Bulgaria, Moldova Report First Coronavirus Cases". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. 8 March 2020.

[focus-news.net-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). Archived from the original on 2020-05-05. Retrieved 2020-04-22.

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