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News 63 countries have consented to voting in Bulgarian Parliamentary elections on their territory published on 2/13/21 11:52 AM
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Bulgaria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has obtained the consent of 63 countries for opening of polling stations on their territory for the upcoming Parliamentary elections on April 4, 2021, the Foreign Ministry has announced. The USA, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Russia, Brazil, Japan, Serbia and Turkey are among the countries that have so far consented to voting in Parliamentary elections on their territory.
Voting shall take place in strict observance of the anti-epidemic measures adopted on the territory of these countries. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, some countries have only consented to voting on the territory of Bulgaria’s diplomatic representations. Others will allow voting outside the diplomatic representations.
Covid-19 in Bulgaria: Day 343 published on 2/13/21 5:34 PM
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Covid-19 infection produces a stronger immune response than vaccines: Professor Doycheva
The coronavirus infection produces a stronger immune response than the vaccine against Covid-19, said for BTV Professor Viktoriya Doycheva, Head of Department of Epidemiology at the Medical University of Sofia. In her words, the people who have already had Covid-19 must receive vaccines as well. However, they should be inoculated three months after the initial infection at the earliest. “The forthcoming third wave of Covid-19 is not likely to be catastrophic”, said Viktoriya Doycheva. In her view, antigen testing for children is pointless, because the results show the current picture, but it is unclear what happens next. “Mass vaccination must continue. In the history of infectious diseases, vaccines have always been the key to the eradication of various illnesses”, stressed Profe
News Russia declares Bulgarian diplomat persona non grata published on 12/28/20 4:12 PM
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Bulgaria’s Ambassador to the Russian Federation Atanas Krastin was invited today to
a protocol meeting at the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. There, he was handed a note declaring a diplomat from the Bulgarian embassy in Russia a persona non grata. The diplomat must leave the country within 72 hours.
The measure is motivated as reciprocal to the actions of Bulgaria’s Foreign Ministry, which on December 18 declared a diplomat from the Russian Embassy in Sofia persona non grata due to actions incompatible with the diplomatic status which constitute a crime under the Criminal Code.