A 43-year-old patient who has returned from China has been placed in the hospital of "St. Marina” in the city of Varna. At Varna Airport it was found that he had fever and a sore throat. The patient is in a satisfactory general condition with no breathing problems, it has been reported. He was assigned viral tests for the flu, including for the new coronavirus. Timely treatment has already been started.

The man was working as a welder on a ship in Shanghai and after his contract expired he returned to Bulgaria. The condition of the woman in Dobrich who returned from Thailand and whom doctors had doubts about being infected with coronavirus is good and her disease tests are negative, according to a hospital in the city.