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Two people who had tested positive for Covid-19 in Bulgaria died in the past day, bringing the country’s death toll linked to the disease to 18 205, the July 29 report by the national information system said. Of 15 749 tests done in the past day, 216 – about 1.37 per cent – proved positive. For the third consecutive day in July 2021, this is the highest number of positive tests in the past seven months. A total of 424 295 cases of new coronavirus have been confirmed in Bulgaria. Of these,...

Twenty-four people in Bulgaria who had tested positive for Covid-19 died in the past week, bringing the country’s death toll linked to the disease to 18 193, according to the July 25 report by the national information system. This is the lowest Covid-19 death toll in Bulgaria in a week so far in 2021. The highest number of Covid-19 deaths in Bulgaria in a week so far this year was 857, in the week ending April 4. According to the July 25 report, 423 629 cases of new coronavirus have been conf...

There will be “green corridors” for vaccinations against Covid-19 for all comers in Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia and other places in the country this weekend, according to the national information system. In Sofia, the regional health inspectorate’s “vaccination bus” will be at the Central Bus Station, open from 9am to 6pm. There will be mobile immunisation points in the Serdica Centre, Bulgaria Mall, The Mall, Ring Mall and Paradise Mall from 1pm to 6pm. Other vaccination points i...

At this stage, there have been only isolated cases of vaccines against Covid-19 being discarded, Bulgaria’s Medicines Agency head Bogdan Kirilov said in a television interview on July 17. With many vaccination points and many medical teams participating in the vaccination campaign but with low interest among the public, this opens the way for doses to be lost, Kirilov told Nova Televizia. However, in no way could it be said that there would be mass discarding of vaccines against Covid-19 avai...

Of 16 122 tests, 76 – about 0.47 per cent – proved positive. To date, 422 873 cases of new coronavirus have been confirmed in Bulgaria, of which 7544 are active. The number of active cases decreased by 14 in the past day. The report said that in the past day, 84 people had recovered from the virus, bringing the total to 397 160. There are 736 patients with Covid-19 in hospital, a decrease of five in the past day, with 91 in intensive care, a decrease of two. To date, 13 457 medical personne...

This includes one death registered in the past day. The lowest Covid-19 death toll in a week in Bulgaria so far in 2021 was 38, in the week ending June 27. The highest in a week so far this year was 857, in the week ending April 4. To date, 422 034 cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed in Bulgaria, a figure that includes those who have died, the active cases and those who have recovered from the virus. The figure has risen by 519 in the past week. The July 4 report said that there were 8661 act...

Of 16 184 tests, 82 – about 0.5 per cent – proved positive. To date, 421 983 cases of new coronavirus have been confirmed in Bulgaria, a figure that includes those who have died, the active cases and those who have recovered from the virus. There are 8618 active cases, a decrease of 287 in the past day. The report said that in the past day, 352 people had recovered from the virus, bringing the total to date to 395 282. There are 1313 patients with Covid-19 in hospital, a decrease of 121 in ...

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - A fighter jet of the Bulgarian air force disappeared from radars during a training flight over the country’s territorial waters on Wednesday, and the...

In view of the number of infections that have been falling for weeks, the French government is easing the entry requirements for all EU citizens, including Bulgarians, from June 9, according to a statement by French tourism development agency Atout France. In addition, further easing of the measures takes effect also today. According to a statement by the State Secretary for Tourism, Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, Bulgarian and all other EU citizens no longer need a PCR test to enter France from June ...

Bulgaria is ready to provide up to 150 000 doses of vaccines against Covid-19 to neighbouring countries, caretaker Health Minister Stoicho Katsarov told a news conference on June 3. Bulgaria has received requests from Kosovo, North Macedonia, Albania, and Bosnia and Herzegovina for support with vaccines, he said. Katsarov said that the procedure is complex and requires co-ordination with the European Commission and the manufacturers, regardless of whether the procedure will be a donation or a s...