site.btaChief State Health Inspector Proposes New COVID Restrictions
SC 15:08:31 30-08-2021
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115 COVID-19 - BULGARIA - MEASURES AMPLIFIED
Chief State Health Inspector
Proposes
New COVID Restrictions
Sofia, August 30 (BTA) - Bulgaria's Chief State Health Inspector, Dr Angel Kunchev, has sent a report to Health Minister Stoycho Katsarov, urging him to impose new restrictions across the country considering the increase of COVID infections, the Health Ministry said in a press release on Monday. According to the report, public events such as concerts, fairs, music and other festivals should be cancelled, as well as in-person congresses, conferences, competitions and other events held indoors.
The restriction will be waived if 100 per cent of the staff and patrons/participants are vaccinated or have tested negative for coronavirus.
Only indoor professional sport events without an audience can take place. Alternatively, vaccinated spectators or such with a negative COVID test can be admitted to events at sports facilities limited to 50 per cent seating capacity.
Group visits to gyms, sports halls and clubs, swimming pools and spa centres will be banned, as well as to museums, galleries and other cultural establishments, gambling halls and casinos.
Indoor dining areas will be closed, and restaurants will only serve in outdoor spaces, operating on reduced working hours (until 10:00 p.m.).
Alternatively, restaurants can keep indoor spaces open at 50 per cent capacity for vaccinated/negatively tested patrons and 100 per cent vaccinated staff.
Access to shopping malls will be limited to 1 person per 8 sq m.
The measures are intended to sever the chain of COVID-19 infections because the 14-day incidence rate in Bulgaria has reached 265.52 per 100,000 population.
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"Mandatory vaccination is not an option," caretaker Prime Minister Stefan Yanev told journalists here on Monday. In his words, everybody have the right to decide how to manage their own life and health.
Yanev said that an increased number of people over 60, who are presumably more vulnerable to a new wave of the infection, is getting the jab.
The caretaker Cabinet's philosophy is to take "extremely business-friendly measures" in connection with the new COVID wave. "Business must work, life must go on normally regardless of the situation," the PM added. RY/LN, LG
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LG1507.115
115 COVID-19 - BULGARIA - MEASURES AMPLIFIED
Chief State Health Inspector
Proposes
New COVID Restrictions
Sofia, August 30 (BTA) - Bulgaria's Chief State Health Inspector, Dr Angel Kunchev, has sent a report to Health Minister Stoycho Katsarov, urging him to impose new restrictions across the country considering the increase of COVID infections, the Health Ministry said in a press release on Monday. According to the report, public events such as concerts, fairs, music and other festivals should be cancelled, as well as in-person congresses, conferences, competitions and other events held indoors.
The restriction will be waived if 100 per cent of the staff and patrons/participants are vaccinated or have tested negative for coronavirus.
Only indoor professional sport events without an audience can take place. Alternatively, vaccinated spectators or such with a negative COVID test can be admitted to events at sports facilities limited to 50 per cent seating capacity.
Group visits to gyms, sports halls and clubs, swimming pools and spa centres will be banned, as well as to museums, galleries and other cultural establishments, gambling halls and casinos.
Indoor dining areas will be closed, and restaurants will only serve in outdoor spaces, operating on reduced working hours (until 10:00 p.m.).
Alternatively, restaurants can keep indoor spaces open at 50 per cent capacity for vaccinated/negatively tested patrons and 100 per cent vaccinated staff.
Access to shopping malls will be limited to 1 person per 8 sq m.
The measures are intended to sever the chain of COVID-19 infections because the 14-day incidence rate in Bulgaria has reached 265.52 per 100,000 population.
* * *
"Mandatory vaccination is not an option," caretaker Prime Minister Stefan Yanev told journalists here on Monday. In his words, everybody have the right to decide how to manage their own life and health.
Yanev said that an increased number of people over 60, who are presumably more vulnerable to a new wave of the infection, is getting the jab.
The caretaker Cabinet's philosophy is to take "extremely business-friendly measures" in connection with the new COVID wave. "Business must work, life must go on normally regardless of the situation," the PM added. RY/LN, LG
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