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COVID-19 Response:
Daily
Update


Sofia, November 3 (BTA) - Following is a daily update of the response to the coronavirus epidemic in Bulgaria:

-- Portable facilities set up at entrances to large state-run hospitals will administer rapid Covid-19 antigen tests, Health Minister Kostadin Angelov told reporters on Tuesday. The supply of rapid tests is being negotiated. The facilities will have a doctor, a nurse or other medical professional provided by the hospitals. The aim is to administer rapid tests to as many people as possible, Angelov said, adding that tests are best administered on people with symptoms. Anyone who thinks they need to be tested may go to such a mobile facility. The mobile facilities are expected to open by November 6.

-- Twenty officials from the National Centre for Public Health and Analyses will provide assistance to the Sofia Regional Health Inspectorate, the Health Ministry said. They will perform state health supervision activities and other Covid-19 related tasks.

-- Nearly eight per cent of administrative judges are infected with Covid-19 or quarantined, the Supreme Administrative Court said on Tuesday. Sixty-four persons: magistrates and court clerks in the system of administrative justice are infected or quarantined. The number corresponds to a little under four per cent of all employees in administrative courts in Bulgaria.

-- The Bulgarian Medical Union (BMU) proposes a 20.5 per cent increase of the outlays for medical and diagnostic work in the budget of the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) for 2021, compared with the 2020 figure. Also, the BMU urges for revising the proposed outlays in the 2021 draft budget of the NHIF for out-of-hospital and hospital care. The opinion of the BMU was sent to the ministers of finance and of health and to the chairs of the parliamentary committees for budget and finance and for healthcare. RY/ZH
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