Bulgarian Finance Minister tested positive for COVID-19

According to Bloomberg, Bulgarian finance minister Kiril Ananiev, who tested positive for the novel coronavirus, said that part of the work during the quarantine would be transferred to Deputy Minister Rositsa Velkova.

Ananeev is 65 years old. He has no serious symptoms and is in good health.

On January 19th local time, the Bulgarian Ministry of Health reported that 7,964 nucleic acid tests for COVID-19 have been carried out in the past 24 hours, and 570 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 have been reported, with a total of 212,383 confirmed cases; among which 9,281 have been confirmed by medical personnel.