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Covid-19 in Bulgaria: Omicron variant found in 227 of 522 samples sequenced by NCIPD

January 19, 2022January 21, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

Bulgaria’s National Centre for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases (NCIPD) said on January 18 that it has found the Omicron coronavirus

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Bulgaria 

Covid-19: EC approves 6M leva Bulgarian scheme to support tour operators

January 19, 2022January 19, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

The European Commission (EC) said on January 19 that it had approved a six million leva (3.07 million euro) Bulgarian

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Bulgaria 

GERB MPs walk out of Radev’s speech at second inauguration

January 19, 2022January 19, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff Roumen Radev

MPs for Boiko Borissov’s opposition GERB party walked out of the National Assembly chamber on January 19 as President Roumen

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Bulgaria 

Covid-19 in Bulgaria: New record 11 181 cases confirmed in past day

January 19, 2022January 20, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

A total of 11 181 new cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Bulgaria in the past day, setting a new

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Petkov meets Kovachevski in Skopje: ‘First step forward in new chapter’

January 18, 2022January 21, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff Kiril Petkov, Macedonia

There was a cordial tone between Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Kiril Petkov and his North Macedonian counterpart Dimitar Kovachevski at a

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Bulgaria 

FDI in Bulgaria in January-November 2021 was 1.28B euro

January 18, 2022January 18, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff macroeconomic indicators

Foreign direct investment in Bulgaria in the first 11 months of 2021 stood at 1.28 billion euro, the equivalent of

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria annual inflation hits new 13-year high 7.8% in 2021

January 18, 2022January 21, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff macroeconomic indicators, new coronavirus

Bulgaria’s annual consumer price index (CPI) recorded 7.8 per cent inflation in December 2021, data released by the National Statistical

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Bulgaria 

New passenger car registrations in Bulgaria in 2021 up 9.7% y/y

January 18, 2022January 18, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff

The number of new passenger car registrations in Bulgaria in 2021 was 9.7 per cent higher than the figure for

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Bulgaria 

Covid-19 in Bulgaria: 24 of 28 districts are dark red zones

January 18, 2022January 20, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

Twenty-four of the 28 districts in Bulgaria are classified as Covid-19 dark red zones, meaning a morbidity rate of 500

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