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This is the highest death toll in a month in 2021 so far. The January Covid-19 death toll in Bulgaria was 1469, in February 1146 and in March 3006. Bulgaria’s Covid-19 death toll is currently 16 399. A total of 61 717 cases of new coronavirus were confirmed in Bulgaria in April, bringing the total to 404 380, a figure that includes those who have died, those who have recovered from the virus and the active cases. A total of 79 973 people recovered from the virus in April, bringing the total to 339 534. There are 48 447 active cases, a decrease of 21 428 compared with the April 1 figure. The...

Bulgaria’s outgoing Health Minister Kostadin Angelov told a briefing in Plovdiv on May 1 that he was “very pleased” with the country’s pace of vaccination against Covid-19. He said that the country had managed to administer 100 000 doses of vaccines against Covid-19 during European Immunisation Week. Angelov said that so far, about 800 000 people in Bulgaria had been vaccinated, and the goal was to reach three million. As The Sofia Globe reported earlier on May 1, a total of 555 465 doses of vaccines against Covid-19 were administered in April, bringing the total to 815 463. A total o...

So far, 803 176 doses of vaccines against Covid-19 have been administered in Bulgaria, including 26 923 in the past 24 hours – the largest number in a single day since the country began its vaccination campaign on December 27. According to the national information system’s daily report on April 30, a total of 207 667 people have received a second dose, including 17 132 in the past 24 hours. A spreadsheet, in Bulgarian, with the list of vaccination points can be found on the Health Ministry website at this link. The daily report said that in the past 24 hours, a total of 90 people in Bulga...

Bulgaria’s Health Minister Kostadin Angelov issued on April 29 an order on the rules for entering Bulgaria as of May 1, along with a ban on entry from certain countries. As of May 1, arrivals from India, Bangladesh, Brazil and many countries in Africa are temporarily prohibited, including among others, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Namibia. Exceptions to this apply to Bulgarian citizens and those with long-term or permanent residence in Bulgaria who must, however, on arrival from these places, go into mandatory 10-day quarantine. With regard to African countries, the ban does not a...

A total of 96 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 16 278, according to the April 29 daily report by the national information system. Of 14 082 tests in the past 24 hours, 1382 – about 9.8 per cent – proved positive, according to the report. To date, 402 491 cases of new coronavirus have been confirmed in Bulgaria, counting in those who have died, those who have recovered from the virus and the active cases. The report said that 3013 people had recovered from the virus in the past da...