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Flights between the United Kingdom and Bulgaria may resume as of noon on December 23, it was decided at a meeting between Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov and members of his Cabinet. Passengers arriving from the UK will undergo antigen tests for new coronavirus and will have to spend 10 days in quarantine. On Sunday, Bulgaria had banned UK-Bulgaria flights as a response to reports of a new strain of Covid-19 in the UK. From January 1, a negative PCR test, done no more than 72 hours before arriving in Bulgaria, will be required of travellers arriving in the country. Borissov ordered the...

Bulgaria’s Health Minister Kostadin Angelov has issued an order that from December 23, the results of antigen tests for Covid-19 will be included in the statistics posted daily by the country’s national information system about the disease, the ministry said in a statement. People who test positive for Covid-19 through an antigen test will be required to go into 14-day quarantine, the Health Ministry said. As with positive results from PCR tests, contact persons of those who test positive through an antigen test will be obliged to spend 10 days in quarantine. The results of antigen tests ...

Bulgaria’s death toll linked to Covid-19 has risen to 6879, with 114 more deaths in the past 24 hours, according to the December 23 daily report by the national information system. Of 6233 PCR tests done in Bulgaria in the past 24 hours, 1799 proved positive – about 29.8 per cent. Of the newly-confirmed cases, 263 are in the city of Sofia, 180 in the district of Varna and 160 in the district of Plovdiv. To date, 194 271 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. There are 82 302 a...

About 74.1 per cent of managers of accommodation establishments in Bulgaria said that their revenue fell in November 2020 compared with October, the National Statistical Institute (NSI) said on December 22, announcing the results of the latest in a special series of polls to assess the impact of the Covid-19 crisis. The NSI said that 23.8 per cent of managers polled said that their revenue did not change compared with October. Close to half considered offering their clients an alternative period to use their reservations, 66.3 per cent intended cutting the prices of package services and 47.3 ...

British specialist tour operator Balkan Holidays said on December 22 that because of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, it had decided to cancel all of its Bulgaria charter flights, flight only, and package holidays departing from January 23 2021 up to and including February 6. “It is important for us to be able to deliver your holiday and enjoy a well-deserved holiday on the slopes,” the company said on its Facebook page. “We are therefore inviting you to rebook your holiday or flight for later this winter season or for winter 2021-22. If you fancy swapping the slopes for the beach, you ca...