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Ninety-nine people in Bulgaria who had been diagnosed with Covid-19 died in the past day, bringing the country’s death toll linked to the disease to 6978, according to the December 24 daily report by the national information system. The December 24 national information system report was the first to include the results of antigen tests as well as PCR tests for Covid-19. The report said that 1615 people in Bulgaria had tested positive in the past 24 hours. Of this total, 1372 cases were establ...

The anti-epidemic measures in Bulgaria are working and no part of the country remains a red zone for Covid-19 morbidity, it was reported at a December 24 meeting between Prime Minister Boiko Borissov and senior health officials, a government statement said. The statement said that 16 000 patients had recovered in the past seven days, with 8500 in the past four days, while the number of those infected was close to half those who recovered. Vaccination against Covid-19 will start on December 27 i...

Over the weekend, vandals claiming to belong to Antifa Bulgaria painted a synagogue in the country with graffiti reading “free Palestine” and equated the Israeli government with the Nazi regime. The target of the vandals was Bulgaria’s oldest synagogue, the Zion Synagogue in Plovdiv, a city on Bulgaria’s border with Turkey. Shalom, an organization that represents Bulgarian Jewry, condemned the graffiti, according to Bulgarian news outlet the Sofia Globe. In their condemnation, Shalom ci...

Bulgaria’s government is extending its “60:40” payroll support measure for employers, a response to the Covid-19 crisis, until September 2021, Prime Minister Boiko Borissov said on December 23. The measure involves the state picking up 60 per cent of salary and social insurance costs, while the employer must pay the remaining 40 per cent. Borissov emphasised during a meeting with members of his government that all other measures to support business during the pandemic continue to work, a ...

Sixty-six teachers in Bulgaria have died of Covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic in the country, Education Minister Krassimir Vulchev said in a television interview on December 23. Bulgaria closed schools in March when it declared a State of Emergency because of Covid-19. After some months of distance learning, and after the summer holidays, schools opened with in-person classes on the traditional September 15 date. In-person teaching was again suspended with the heightened anti-epidemi...

Flights between the United Kingdom and Bulgaria may resume as of noon on December 23, it was decided at a meeting between Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov and members of his Cabinet. Passengers arriving from the UK will undergo antigen tests for new coronavirus and will have to spend 10 days in quarantine. On Sunday, Bulgaria had banned UK-Bulgaria flights as a response to reports of a new strain of Covid-19 in the UK. From January 1, a negative PCR test, done no more than 72 hours befor...

Bulgaria’s Health Minister Kostadin Angelov has issued an order that from December 23, the results of antigen tests for Covid-19 will be included in the statistics posted daily by the country’s national information system about the disease, the ministry said in a statement. People who test positive for Covid-19 through an antigen test will be required to go into 14-day quarantine, the Health Ministry said. As with positive results from PCR tests, contact persons of those who test positive t...

Bulgaria’s death toll linked to Covid-19 has risen to 6879, with 114 more deaths in the past 24 hours, according to the December 23 daily report by the national information system. Of 6233 PCR tests done in Bulgaria in the past 24 hours, 1799 proved positive – about 29.8 per cent. Of the newly-confirmed cases, 263 are in the city of Sofia, 180 in the district of Varna and 160 in the district of Plovdiv. To date, 194 271 cases of new coronavirus have been confirmed in Bulgaria, counting in t...

About 74.1 per cent of managers of accommodation establishments in Bulgaria said that their revenue fell in November 2020 compared with October, the National Statistical Institute (NSI) said on December 22, announcing the results of the latest in a special series of polls to assess the impact of the Covid-19 crisis. The NSI said that 23.8 per cent of managers polled said that their revenue did not change compared with October. Close to half considered offering their clients an alternative perio...

British specialist tour operator Balkan Holidays said on December 22 that because of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, it had decided to cancel all of its Bulgaria charter flights, flight only, and package holidays departing from January 23 2021 up to and including February 6. “It is important for us to be able to deliver your holiday and enjoy a well-deserved holiday on the slopes,” the company said on its Facebook page. “We are therefore inviting you to rebook your holiday or flight for la...