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Day: May 8, 2020

Bulgaria 

Covid-19 in Bulgaria, May 8: MPs, cases, masks and parks

May 8, 2020May 11, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

Bulgarian MPs approved on May 8 the first reading of amendments to the Health Act that will give Health Minister

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Bulgaria 

Precautions as international flights at Bulgaria’s Varna Airport resume

May 8, 2020May 8, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

Varna mayor Ivan Portnih announced on May 8 that he was restricting public bus travel at Varna Airport as Wizz

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria: March saw jump in retail figures of pharmacies, online sales

May 8, 2020May 10, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

March 2020 saw turnover at Bulgaria’s pharmacies and drug stores up by 14.4 per cent on an annual basis, while

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Tourism Minister: Domestic tourism resumes on May 13

May 8, 2020May 10, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus, tourism

Domestic tourism in Bulgaria will resume on May 13, when the end of the State of Emergency means that the

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Bulgaria 

Covid-19: Restaurateurs in Bulgaria’s Veliko Turnovo protest against table-spacing rules

May 8, 2020May 9, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

Restaurateurs in Bulgaria’s city of Veliko Turnovo were holding a symbolic protest on May 8 against the rules for opening

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Bulgaria 

Tree-felling at Bulgaria’s Durankulak Lake destroys cormorant nesting colony

May 8, 2020May 8, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff

A nesting colony of great cormorants at Durankulak Lake in north-eastern Bulgaria has been completely destroyed by tree-felling, the Bulgarian

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Business 

Eurostat: Retail trade in Bulgaria dropped 18% in March 2020, biggest decrease in EU

May 8, 2020May 9, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

Bulgaria had the largest drop in retail trade in the European Union in March 2020 compared with February, at 18.1

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria among 10 countries in joint statement on 75th anniversary of end of Second World War

May 8, 2020May 9, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva was among 10 foreign ministers in a joint statement on the 75th anniversary of the

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