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Bulgaria was due to receive the next batch of coronavirus vaccines on January 4-5 2021, Chief State Health Inspector Angel Kunchev said on December 31, at the weekly briefing of the national Covid-19 response staff. Kunchev said that 25 000 vaccines would be delivered by air and then distributed to all district health inspectorates, in line with their respective allocations under the current vaccination plans. He said that the jabs would be administered to medical personnel, including pharmacis...

A total of 110 people in Bulgaria who had tested positive for Covid-19 died in the past 24 hours, bringing the country’s death toll linked to the disease to 7515, the national information system said on December 31. Of 8475 coronavirus tests done in Bulgaria in the past 24 hours, 1729 proved positive – about 20.4 per cent. Of this figure, 1098 were established by PCR tests and 631 by rapid antigen tests. To date, 201 220 cases of new coronavirus have been confirmed in Bulgaria, of which 75 ...

The number of arrivals of visitors from abroad in Bulgaria for holidays in November 2020 was 78.8 per cent lower than in November 2019, the National Statistical Institute (NSI) said on December 30, noting that the figures came in the context of the continuing Covid-19 epidemic situation. Overall, the number of arrivals of visitors from abroad in Bulgaria was 53.5 per cent lower than in November 2019, the NSI said. Business trips were down by 57.3 per cent year-on-year, while in the “other” ...

A regular monthly poll has found that the business climate in Bulgaria is seen as unfavourable, declining by 1.7 percentage points compared to November, the National Statistical Institute (NSI) said on December 30. This was the second consecutive month of decline, reversing the six-month upward trend recorded after the indicator plunged to a 23-year low in April amid the Covid-19 crisis. The poll covers four sectors in Bulgaria. In two – retail and the service sector – the indicator was dow...

Bulgaria’s Tourism Minister Mariana Nikolova said on December 29 that she would ask the government, medical authorities and the country’s national coronavirus response staff to consider a proposal that would allow hotels in restaurants to work until past midnight on New Year’s Eve. Under the proposal, restaurants in hotels would be allowed to work until 12.30am, but would still be required to keep social distancing measures in place, operating at up to 50 per cent capacity, and would be b...

A total of 87 people in Bulgaria who had tested positive for Covid-19 died in the past 24 hours, bringing the country’s death toll linked to the disease to 7251, the national information system said on December 29. Of 2369 PCR tests done in Bulgaria in the past 24 hours, 337 proved positive – about 14.1 per cent. Of this figure, 189 were established by PCR tests and 148 by rapid antigen tests. To date, 198 053 cases of new coronavirus have been confirmed in Bulgaria, of which 78 319 are act...

Bulgaria’s mountain resort of Borovets opened its 2020/21 ski season on December 28, with required precautions in place to prevent the spread of Covid-19, but some of its ski areas were unavailable to the public. In a statement, the resort’s operator said that the unseasonably warm weather had prevented it from operating artificial snow machines, which require temperatures below -4 degrees Celsius. “We are opening the skiing area in part and with certain compromises in the quality of the ...

A total of 41 people in Bulgaria who had tested positive for Covid-19 died in the past 24 hours, bringing the country’s death toll linked to the disease to 7164, the national information system said on December 28. Of 2810 PCR tests done in Bulgaria in the past 24 hours, 332 proved positive – about 11.8 per cent. Of this figure, 191 were established by PCR tests and 141 by rapid antigen tests. To date, 197 716 cases of new coronavirus have been confirmed in Bulgaria, of which 79 544 are act...

Bulgaria plans to begin tracking acquired immunity as a result of coronavirus vaccinations in a nationwide survey within three months, the country’s Chief State Health Inspector Angel Kunchev said on December 28. The survey would include at least 1000 individuals from different age groups, who would be tested for antibodies at two months after receiving the vaccines, six months, one year and two years. It was important to test “what kind of immunity is being built, how stressed it is, how l...

Arrangements have been made for people arriving in Bulgaria from the United Kingdom to undergo at the airport rapid antigen tests for Covid-19, Chief State Health Inspector Angel Kunchev said, according to a report by Bulgarian National Radio on December 24. As of December 23, Bulgaria allowed the resumption of UK-Bulgaria flights, having suspended them on Sunday in response to reports of a new strain of Covid-19 in Britain. People arriving from the UK must go into quarantine for 10 days if the...