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A total of 87 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 7251, the national information system said on December 29. Of 2369 PCR tests done in Bulgaria in the past 24 hours, 337 proved positive – about 14.1 per cent. Of this figure, 189 were established by PCR tests and 148 by rapid antigen tests. To date, 198 053 cases of new coronavirus have been confirmed in Bulgaria, of which 78 319 are active, a decrease of 1225 compared with the figure in the December 28 report by the national informati...

Bulgaria’s mountain resort of Borovets opened its 2020/21 ski season on December 28, with required precautions in place to prevent the spread of Covid-19, but some of its ski areas were unavailable to the public. In a statement, the resort’s operator said that the unseasonably warm weather had prevented it from operating artificial snow machines, which require temperatures below -4 degrees Celsius. “We are opening the skiing area in part and with certain compromises in the quality of the ski runs. For your safety, we have marked the dangerous areas,” the statement said. The insufficie...

A total of 41 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 7164, the national information system said on December 28. Of 2810 PCR tests done in Bulgaria in the past 24 hours, 332 proved positive – about 11.8 per cent. Of this figure, 191 were established by PCR tests and 141 by rapid antigen tests. To date, 197 716 cases of new coronavirus have been confirmed in Bulgaria, of which 79 544 are active, a decrease of 975 compared with the figure in the December 27 report by the national informatio...

Bulgaria plans to begin tracking acquired immunity as a result of coronavirus vaccinations in a nationwide survey within three months, the country’s Chief State Health Inspector Angel Kunchev said on December 28. The survey would include at least 1000 individuals from different age groups, who would be tested for antibodies at two months after receiving the vaccines, six months, one year and two years. It was important to test “what kind of immunity is being built, how stressed it is, how long can it protect people and how long, whether it is the same with different people – depending o...

Arrangements have been made for people arriving in Bulgaria from the United Kingdom to undergo at the airport rapid antigen tests for Covid-19, Chief State Health Inspector Angel Kunchev said, according to a report by Bulgarian National Radio on December 24. As of December 23, Bulgaria allowed the resumption of UK-Bulgaria flights, having suspended them on Sunday in response to reports of a new strain of Covid-19 in Britain. People arriving from the UK must go into quarantine for 10 days if the test is negative, and 14 days if it is positive, according to an order issued on December 23 by Hea...