“The epidemic situation is being extended by one month,” outgoing Health Minister Kostadin Angelov announced at today’s cabinet sitting. Kostadin Angelov stated that the country was coming out of the third wave of coronavirus successfully. The sitting of the outgoing government was streamed on Facebook.

Deputy Prime Minister Tomislav Donchev is being assigned the task of beginning consultations with the European Commission for the final submission of Bulgaria’s draft recovery and resilience plan, outgoing PM Boyko Borissov stated. Tomislav Donchev stated that the government was ready to begin ex-ante checks of the plan. When they are completed, the document will have to be approved by the European Commission and the Council of the EU, Tomislav Donchev stated.