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Ninety-nine people in Bulgaria who had been diagnosed with Covid-19 died in the past day, bringing the country’s death toll linked to the disease to 6978, according to the December 24 daily report by the national information system. The December 24 national information system report was the first to include the results of antigen tests as well as PCR tests for Covid-19. The report said that 1615 people in Bulgaria had tested positive in the past 24 hours. Of this total, 1372 cases were established by PCR tests and 243 by rapid antigen tests. The total number of tests performed during the pa...

The anti-epidemic measures in Bulgaria are working and no part of the country remains a red zone for Covid-19 morbidity, it was reported at a December 24 meeting between Prime Minister Boiko Borissov and senior health officials, a government statement said. The statement said that 16 000 patients had recovered in the past seven days, with 8500 in the past four days, while the number of those infected was close to half those who recovered. Vaccination against Covid-19 will start on December 27 in Sofia, Plovdiv and Bourgas, and from December 28 will expand to other district capitals. Vaccinati...

Over the weekend, vandals claiming to belong to Antifa Bulgaria painted a synagogue in the country with graffiti reading “free Palestine” and equated the Israeli government with the Nazi regime. The target of the vandals was Bulgaria’s oldest synagogue, the Zion Synagogue in Plovdiv, a city on Bulgaria’s border with Turkey. Shalom, an organization that represents Bulgarian Jewry, condemned the graffiti, according to Bulgarian news outlet the Sofia Globe. In their condemnation, Shalom cited the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism, which categoriz...

Bulgaria’s government is extending its “60:40” payroll support measure for employers, a response to the Covid-19 crisis, until September 2021, Prime Minister Boiko Borissov said on December 23. The measure involves the state picking up 60 per cent of salary and social insurance costs, while the employer must pay the remaining 40 per cent. Borissov emphasised during a meeting with members of his government that all other measures to support business during the pandemic continue to work, a government statement said. “All these measures are to maintain people’s jobs, lives and standard...

Sixty-six teachers in Bulgaria have died of Covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic in the country, Education Minister Krassimir Vulchev said in a television interview on December 23. Bulgaria closed schools in March when it declared a State of Emergency because of Covid-19. After some months of distance learning, and after the summer holidays, schools opened with in-person classes on the traditional September 15 date. In-person teaching was again suspended with the heightened anti-epidemic measures that took effect on November 27. Vulchev told bTV that preliminary surveys showed that 20...