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Bulgaria to purchase masks, ventilators from China, PCR tests from South Korea

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The Bulgaria government will provide and pay for the transportation of 1.176 million disposable safety masks, 1 million medical masks and 50 ventilators from China. The same transportation will be used to deliver the donations made by China to Bulgaria. This was decided at an extraordinary cabinet meeting today. 

A contract for the delivery of 303,000 Covid-19 tests is also to be signed with a South Korean company. The tests will be a "real time" PCR tests with a certificate of use in the EU.



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