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A hundred and sixty-seven 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 6005, the national information system said on December 16. Of 7737 PCR tests done in Bulgaria in the past 24 hours, 2743 proved positive – about 35.45 per cent. The number of active cases has risen in the past day by 219 to a total of 90 347. There are 48 fewer patients in hospital, with the total now 6997. A total of 582 are...

Forty-seven mobile teams will be involved in Bulgaria’s national campaign of vaccination against Covid-19, a statement on the national information system website said. The algorithm of the of the immunisation process is ready, which includes the logistics and the organisation of the vaccination rooms, the head of the regional health inspectorate in Bourgas, Dr Georgi Pazderov, said after a meeting between Health Minister Kostadin Angelov, the head of the national vaccination headquarters Kras...

The Bulgarian Medical Association (BMA) believes that the measures to prevent the spread of new coronavirus should not be eased before the holidays, association head Dr Ivan Madzharov said on December 15. The heightened measures are scheduled to expire on December 21. Bulgarian Prime Minister Borissov has asked health authorities for a report by December 17 so that a decision may be made about what will happen on December 21. Health Minister Kostadin Angelov has said that he is insisting that t...

Bulgaria’s annual consumer price index (CPI) recorded 0.4 per cent inflation in November, down from 0.8 per cent a month earlier, data released by the National Statistical Institute (NSI) on December 15 showed. This was the lowest year-on-year increase in consumer prices since December 2016, when the figure was 0.1 per cent. In November the CPI rose by 0.1 per cent, making it the sixth time that the monthly figure showed inflation during the previous 12 months, a period that also saw five mon...

A hundred and fifty 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 5838, the national information system said on December 15. Of 5298 PCR tests done in Bulgaria in the past 24 hours, 2095 proved positive – about 39.54 per cent. The number of active cases has increased by 87 to a total of 90 128. There are 199 fewer patients in hospital, with the total now 7045. The number in intensive care has dec...

Bulgaria’s government will work actively with the Bulgarian Medical Association (BMA) in coming weeks to help doctors know everything about the vaccines against Covid-19 and be as useful as possible to patients, Prime Minister Boiko Borissov said after meeting the BMA leadership on December 15. Other matters discussed at the meeting, which was also attended by Health Minister Kostadin Angelov, included equating antigen tests with PCR tests, financial support for doctors on the front line in t...

Bulgaria’s Health Minister Kostadin Angelov said on December 15 that he had not backed down from his view that the current heightened measures against Covid-19, that are due to expire on December 21, must continue beyond that date. His statement came two days before health authorities are due to present reports to Prime Minister Boiko Borissov on the basis of which a decision will be made about what should happen after December 21. Angelov reiterated that it was unacceptable for him to have s...