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About 5000 medical personnel would be covered at this first stage, he said. “Ten thousand doses will arrive, but we will cover 5000 because we want to make sure that the second dose is reserved for them, in case of logistical problems,” Kunchev said. It is possible that the delivery of the first batch of vaccines to Bulgaria will be on December 25. Kunchev said that in the first week of January, Bulgaria would receive 52 000 doses, followed by 5000 a little later in the month. “For Februa...

A total of 925 people in Bulgaria who had tested positive for Covid-19 died in the past week, according to figures posted on December 20 by the national information system. Bulgaria’s death toll linked to Covid-19 now adds up to 6551, of which 55 deaths were in the past 24 hours. In the past week, the number of confirmed cases in Bulgaria has risen by 12 077 to a current total of 191 029. This figure includes those who have died, those who have recovered, and the active cases. There are 6640 ...

At a meeting on December 20 between Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Boiko Borissov, Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva, Transport Minister Rossen Zhelyazkov and Health Minister Kostadin Angelov, it was decided to suspend all flights between Bulgaria and the UK from December 21 and January 31, Bulgaria’s government media service said. As of December 20, everyone arriving in Bulgaria from the United Kingdom – including Bulgarian citizens – will be subject to a mandatory 10-day quarantine, Bul...

» A growing number of countries are banning flights from the UK to protect their citizens from the new variant of fast-spreading coronavirus A growing number of countries are banning flights from the UK to protect their citizens from the new variant of fast-spreading coronavirus Joshua ZitserDec 21, 2020, 13:24 IST A British Airways Airbus A319 lands.Robert Smith/NurPhoto via Getty Images Fears around a new, more transmissible variant of COVID-19 have prompted multiple countries to cancel flig...

Bulgaria’s mountain resort of Pamporovo opened its 2020/21 ski season on December 19, with required precautions in place to prevent the spread of Covid-19. Between December 19 and 27, the resort is offering special-price lift passes, costing 52 leva for adults, 42 leva for youths and 31 leva for children, it said in a Facebook post. On the afternoon of December 19, the resort reported snow cover of 90cm and said that seven pistes were open and six lifts were working. Plovdiv news website podt...

Of 6190 PCR tests done in the past day, 1739 proved positive – about 28.09 per cent. The number of active cases decreased by 2631 in the past day, to 86 909. There are 499 fewer patients in hospital, with a current total of 6535. The number of patients in intensive care has decreased by 34, to 536. A hundred and one medical personnel tested positive in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to date to 8374. According to the national information system, 2894 people recovered from the virus in t...

It would be very easy to shut down absolutely everything, but people would not be able to cope mentally, Bulgaria’s Health Minister Kostadin Angelov said in a radio interview on December 19. “Our goal is to shut down as many dangers as possible,” Angelov told Darik Radio, the morning after his ministry posted his order detailing the anti-epidemic restrictions that will continue until January 31, to contain the spread of Covid-19 in Bulgaria. “Our decisions are not based on political con...

On the day that the Cabinet’s new regulations on electronic doctor referrals and medicine prescriptions went into force, Deputy Health Minister Zheni Nacheva said that some pharmacies were not prepared to disburse such prescriptions. Nacheva told Bulgarian National Radio on December 18 that “in the initial stage, it will most likely not be all pharmacies, since that depends on the software developers of those pharmacies. We will give the necessary time for all pharmacies to join.” The iss...

A total of 143 people in Bulgaria who had tested positive for Covid-19 died in the past 24 hours, bringing the country’s death toll to 6339, the national information system daily report said on December 18. Of 6825 PCR tests done in Bulgaria in the past day, 2042 proved positive – about 29.91 per cent. The number of active cases decreased by 1319 in the past 24 hours, to 88 221, the second day recently that the figure has been below the 90 000-mark. There are 6900 patients in hospital, 134 ...

Valentin Kassabov, a member of Parliament for the ultra-nationalist United Patriots group, died on December 17 at the age of 62 after a month-long battle with Covid-19. The December 18 sitting of the National Assembly opened with a minute of silence for Kassabov, who was deputy chairman of Valeri Simeonov’s National Front for the Salvation of Bulgaria party and co-leader of the United Patriots group. Kassabov had been treated at two hospitals in Bourgas before being transferred to St Ekaterin...