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A total of 36 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 17 379, according to the May 19 daily report by the national information system. Of 13 794 tests, 457 – about 3.3 per cent – proved positive. To date, 415 326 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 30 483 active cases, a decrease of 2361 in the past 24 hours. The report said that in the past 24 hours,...

Twenty out of the 28 districts in Bulgaria are Covid-19 “red zones”, meaning an infection rate of 120 or higher out of 100 000 population, according to a report by the National Centre for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases for the 14-day period ending May 16. The remainder are “orange zones”, meaning an infection rate of 60 to 119.9 per 100 000 population. The “orange zones” are the districts of Vratsa, Kurdzhali, Pazardzhik, Pleven, Razgrad, Silistra, Haskovo and Shoumen. This represents an improvement compared with the previous week’s report by the centre showing 25 “red zone...

So far, 425 971 people in Bulgaria have completed the vaccination cycle, meaning either that they have received a second dose or one from a single-dose vaccine. This figure includes 11 242 people in the past 24 hours, according to the May 18 daily report by the national information system. So far, 1 134 977 doses of vaccines against Covid-19 have been administered in Bulgaria, including 18 236 in the past 24 hours. The report said that the deaths of 84 people who had tested positive for Covid-19 were registered in the past 24 hours, bringing the country’s death toll linked to the disease to...

Bulgaria had the lowest percentage in the European Union of people working from home in 2020, at 1.2 per cent compared with an EU average of 12.3 per cent in the 15-64 age group, the bloc’s statistics agency Eurostat said on May 17. The social distancing measures that were introduced as a response to the Covd-19 pandemic forced many people to work from home, Eurostat said. This resulted in a sharp increase, compared with an average of about five per cent over the past decade, the statistics agency said. In previous years, the share of self-employed persons who reported that they usually wor...

Bulgaria’s annual consumer price index (CPI) rose by two per cent in April, compared to 0.6 per cent inflation a month earlier, data released by the National Statistical Institute (NSI) on May 17 showed. Monthly inflation in April was 0.7 per cent, the eighth time that the monthly CPI figure showed an increase over the previous 12 months, which also saw deflation recorded three times and one month of zero growth. Beyond the Covid-19 pandemic’s impact on the inflation indicator, it limited NSI’s ability to collect the data, with the statistics body saying that it had to extrapolate about...