Covid-19 outbreak in Perushtitsa linked to evangelical church meeting

Six people from the South Bulgarian town of Perushtitsa have tested positive for coronavirus after a meeting of the evangelical church in the town.

The local pastor also had symptoms and tested positive. He was hospitalized in Plovdiv.

Another priest from Varna, who attended the lecture, died today of complications of the disease.

In the town of Rakovski, two other people who were at the meeting tested positive for the virus. .

After an extraordinary meeting with the director of the police and the medical task force in Plovdiv, the district governor Dani Kanazireva announced on June 18 that restrictive anti-epidemic measures were introduced for the residents of Iztok neighbourhood in Perushtitsa.

20 people who were in contact with the infected were quarantined. People from the neighbourhood claim that their pastor had a mild health condition at the beginning of the month. And although he is already in hospital, they still doubt that the infection came from him.