Additional measures against the coronavirus have been introduced in a number of Bulgarian cities, and in others the restrictions are partial and additional ones will be reviewed and discussed on Friday.
Here is the situation in different parts of the country and what exactly the decisions were made by the local RHIs.
Additional measures will be introduced in Vratsa from Wednesday. Students from 5th to 12th grade from all schools in the district are moving to online learning.
The planned admission and planned operations are stopped.
Wearing protective masks is mandatory outdoors when gathering more people and in all public places. An evening hour is introduced for restaurants until 10 pm.
The measures will be in force until the end of March.
Today, the introduction of additional measures was announced in Veliko Tarnovo district, as well as in Gabrovo.
In addition, they introduce new measures against the coronavirus in the territory of Stara Zagora district. They take effect on Thursday and will last until the end of the month. The reason is the growing number of new cases of COVID-19. According to the new order, students from 5th to 12th grade will switch to online learning.
All group extracurricular activities and activities in the presence environment, as well as the presence classes in language centers, educational centers, study centers and others, organized by legal entities and individuals, are also terminated. An exception is allowed with regard to the activities of interest and activities for children from preschool education and students from the initial stage of school education (from first to fourth grade), and no mixing of children from different classes is allowed.
An exception is allowed for holding competitions and Olympiads in attendance in schools with occupancy of up to 50% of the total capacity of the room, subject to a physical distance of 1.5 m and mandatory wearing of face masks.
See what measures are still in force in the district:
– The present learning process in the higher schools is terminated. Exceptions are allowed for practical exercises in clinical disciplines, teaching practice (clinical internship), undergraduate internship and state exams of students in regulated medical professions in the professional fields of “Medicine” and “Health Care”, as well as state exams for acquiring a specialty in the healthcare system, in strict compliance with the measures.
– Attendance at personal development support centers is suspended.
– Conducting congress-conference events, seminars, exhibitions and other public events in attendance is allowed when the seats are occupied up to 30% of their total indoor capacity, subject to a physical distance of 1.5 m and mandatory wearing of protective masks for the face.
– Cultural and entertainment events (theaters, cinemas, stage events, concerts, classes in dance, creative and musical arts) can be organized and held when the seats are occupied by up to 30% of their total indoor capacity, when accommodating the spectators most a little through a seat and subject to a physical distance of 1.5 m and mandatory placement of protective face masks.
– It is forbidden to hold organized mass public events indoors and outdoors (exhibitions, festivals, festivals, fairs, holidays, bazaars, fairs, etc.).
– All collective and individual sports events with training and competitive nature for all age groups indoors and outdoors are held without an audience.
– The organization of group tourist trips (excursions) with organized transport and group visits to tourist sites is suspended.
– Minors may visit shopping malls only if they are accompanied by their parent, guardian or other adult.
– Visits of minors and minors are stopped without being accompanied by their parent, respectively guardian / trustee in restaurants and snack bars.
– It is forbidden to hold organized mass public events in the open (celebrations, fairs, festivals, etc.).
– In all markets, markets and bazaars, an organization is created for one-way traffic and providing a distance of at least 1.5 m between visitors. Workers and visitors are required to wear a face mask.
– All natural and legal persons who own or manage commercial, administrative or other sites that provide services to citizens and whose activities are not suspended by this order, create an organization to control the number of customers in the site, not allowing more from 1 person to 3 sq. m.
– All employers, depending on the specifics and capabilities of the respective work activity to organize the work process of employees in remote form (teleworking / home work), where possible. When this is not possible, employers organize the implementation of enhanced anti-epidemic measures in the workplace, including filtering, disinfection and ventilation, instruction on personal hygiene of staff and do not allow employees or outsiders with acute infectious diseases.
– Wearing face masks in indoor public places is mandatory. An exception is allowed for customers in restaurants and drinking establishments, outdoor and indoor sports; participants in congress-conference events and the like during their speeches, presenters and guests in TV shows, when they are at a distance of 1.5 m, as well as when they are isolated from each other by a plexiglass barrier.
– Visits to outsiders are not allowed in the specialized institutions for the provision of social services and those for social services of a residential type for children and adults.
Meanwhile, on the RHI-Lovech website as well a special order was issued, from which it became clear exactly what restrictions were decided to be introduced in the area.
There will be a lockdown in the most affected Bulgarian region at the moment – Burgas. In the late afternoon, the meeting of the Regional Anti-Epidemic Headquarters for the fight against coronavirus ended.
Here is what the director of RHI Burgas, Dr. Georgi Pazderov, said.
“Increase covid resource from March 20 to 551 covid beds. This morning there were only 50% vacancies. Each hospital will have to provide at least 30% of its capacity.
With a decision from today, all cultural, sports and mass events on the territory of the Municipality of Burgas are suspended, except for those with international participation.
The following measures will be discussed on Friday, which will enter from March 20 for 14 days:
Closure of malls
Closing gyms
Closing of kindergartens
Dr. Georgi Pazderov did not indicate whether the classes of students from 1st to 4th grade will stop. The official order is expected within minutes.
The incidence in the region is growing, and according to the latest data it is over 720: 100,000 compared to 540: 100,000 a week ago.
As BLIC wrote, Bulgaria literally overheated in red in the traditional weekly KOVID analysis, provided by the Center for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases. The morbidity affects 500 people per 100,000 population as of the reporting date – March 14. This means that this barrier is almost certainly already broken.
All areas outside Targovishte are already in the red zone. The barrier of 600 patients, which was unthinkable until two weeks ago, has already been transferred en masse.
The leader is already Burgas (676 per 100,000 population), followed by Pleven (647), Sofia-city (638), Vratsa (636), Kyustendil (604).
Plovdiv is well below the average level with 346 patients per 100,000 population, but also with a clear tendency for a sharp increase. We remind you that last week this indicator was 270.
As you can see from the curve, Bulgaria is literally repeating the autumn nightmare scenario. We are currently at the levels from around November 7. Or exactly 20 days to an absolute peak, when a complete lockdown was announced in the country, which led to immediate results, writes “Maritsa“.
This time there is a significant difference. When the curve is repeated, the peak appears on the election. What will happen until then, whether there will be a need to take the most severe measures exactly in the week before and after the elections, remains to be seen.
The death toll also repeated exactly the autumn and has already transferred 15 deaths from KOVID per 100,000 population. As has been the case several times, this indicator is about two weeks late after the disease. That is, it repeats the data from about November 20.
The peak of mortality was around December 10, when this figure reached 28 people per 100,000 population. That is, almost double as of today.
BLIC reminds that strict measures are being prepared in the capital, where there is also an increase in morbidity. Earlier today, the head of the capital’s RHI, Dr. Dancho Penchev, announced what exactly he will most likely close by the end of the week in Sofia.
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