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Bulgaria was due to receive the next batch of coronavirus vaccines on January 4-5 2021, Chief State Health Inspector Angel Kunchev said on December 31, at the weekly briefing of the national Covid-19 response staff. Kunchev said that 25 000 vaccines would be delivered by air and then distributed to all district health inspectorates, in line with their respective allocations under the current vaccination plans. He said that the jabs would be administered to medical personnel, including pharmacists, dental and general practitioners. Kunchev said that should a second vaccine receive the approval...

A total of 110 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 7515, the national information system said on December 31. Of 8475 coronavirus tests done in Bulgaria in the past 24 hours, 1729 proved positive – about 20.4 per cent. Of this figure, 1098 were established by PCR tests and 631 by rapid antigen tests. To date, 201 220 cases of new coronavirus have been confirmed in Bulgaria, of which 75 370 are active, a decrease of 1314 compared with the figure in the December 30 report by the nationa...

The number of arrivals of visitors from abroad in Bulgaria for holidays in November 2020 was 78.8 per cent lower than in November 2019, the National Statistical Institute (NSI) said on December 30, noting that the figures came in the context of the continuing Covid-19 epidemic situation. Overall, the number of arrivals of visitors from abroad in Bulgaria was 53.5 per cent lower than in November 2019, the NSI said. Business trips were down by 57.3 per cent year-on-year, while in the “other” category – including transit trips – the figure was down by 34.4 per cent compared with November...

A regular monthly poll has found that the business climate in Bulgaria is seen as unfavourable, declining by 1.7 percentage points compared to November, the National Statistical Institute (NSI) said on December 30. This was the second consecutive month of decline, reversing the six-month upward trend recorded after the indicator plunged to a 23-year low in April amid the Covid-19 crisis. The poll covers four sectors in Bulgaria. In two – retail and the service sector – the indicator was down, while construction recorded no change and the industry sector was up. In Bulgaria’s retail trad...

Bulgaria’s Tourism Minister Mariana Nikolova said on December 29 that she would ask the government, medical authorities and the country’s national coronavirus response staff to consider a proposal that would allow hotels in restaurants to work until past midnight on New Year’s Eve. Under the proposal, restaurants in hotels would be allowed to work until 12.30am, but would still be required to keep social distancing measures in place, operating at up to 50 per cent capacity, and would be banned from providing any entertainment programmes, Nikolova told private broadcaster bTV. Nikolova s...