Bulgaria pandemic.

Bulgaria will further extend the nationwide epidemic emergency over Covid-19 until the end of July, the country’s Health Minister Kiril Ananiev said at a press conference yesterday. The epidemic emergency was initially declared on May 14 with a duration of one month, replacing the state of emergency implemented on March 13. It has already been extended twice, to the end of June and mid-July, respectively. The prolongation of the epidemic emergency would help contain the spread of the coronavirus, Ananiev said. A total of 5,740 Covid-19 cases have been confirmed in Bulgaria so far, and 246 people have died.