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The deaths of 197 people in Bulgaria 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 13 786, according to the April 6 report by the national information system. Of 19 210 tests done in the past 24 hours, 3860 – about 20.1 per cent – proved positive. To date, 356 859 cases of new coronavirus have been confirmed in Bulgaria. There are 69 644 active cases, an increase of 667 compared with the figure in the April 5 report. A total of 10 402 patients with Covid-19 are in hospital, a decrease of 247 in the p...

The Fund raised its forecast, having previously projected 4.1 per cent growth in the October 2020 report. Overall, the report forecast the global economy would grow by six per cent in 2021, compared to 5.2 per cent growth forecast in its previous report, before slowing down to 4.4 per cent in 2022. The higher growth projections for 2021 and 2022 reflected “additional fiscal support in a few large economies and the anticipated vaccine-powered recovery in the second half of the year,” the IMF said. After that initial rebound from the contraction caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, global growt...

For the third consecutive week, all of Bulgaria’s 28 districts were Covid-19 “red zones”, meaning a rate of 120 or more infected per 100 000 population, according to the April 6 weekly report by the National Centre for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases. Covering the 14-day period up to April 4, the report showed the situation in Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia as the worst, at a rate of infection of 1002 per 100 000 population. This, however, was down from the rate of 1018 shown in the centre’s report a week earlier. The district of Silistra, which a week earlier was above the 1000-ma...

The Bulgarian Hotel and Restaurant Association (BHRA) said on April 1 that it had lodged a complaint in the Supreme Administrative Court over Health Minister Kostadin Angelov’s March 18 order that closed spas and restaurants in hotels and other places of accommodation, without the state offering any compensation. BHRA said that since the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis, the hotel sector was the only one in the tourism industry that had not been compensated by the state for forced shutdowns and restrictions. Hotels had remained formally open, but could not actually operate, the association ...

At this writing, there are 1438 stories on the website of The Sofia Globe about the Covid-19 crisis. The Sofia Globe has not been exempt from the effects of that crisis. We remain online only because of the support of our loyal remaining advertisers and those very few who have chosen to support us through donations, directly or via Patreon or Paypal. In point of fact, we remain viable, in the main, because our own earnings as individuals through other gigs go, in part, to keeping our website online, those earnings which we can barely spare so as to provide food for the tables of our household...