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Covid-19 in Bulgaria: Roundup, April 17: 846 cases, tight travel restrictions in Sofia

April 17, 2020April 20, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

The number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Bulgaria has risen by 46 in the past 24 hours to 846,

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Covid-19 in Bulgaria: 825 confirmed cases, 60 of them medical personnel

April 17, 2020April 18, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

The number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Bulgaria has risen by 25 to 825 and the death toll is

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Bulgaria 

Covid-19: Bulgaria Health Minister bans car traffic in and out of Sofia

April 16, 2020April 21, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

Bulgaria Health Minister Kiril Ananiev said late on April 16 that he had ordered a halt to all car traffic

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Bulgaria 

Covid-19 in Bulgaria: Roundup, April 16 – 800 cases, ‘A difficult Easter’

April 16, 2020April 17, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

Eight hundred cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed in Bulgaria, the national operational headquarters said in a 5pm update on

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FDI in Bulgaria in January-February 2020 was 37.1M euro

April 16, 2020April 20, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff macroeconomic indicators

Foreign direct investment in Bulgaria in the first two months of the year stood at 37.1 million euro, the equivalent

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Bulgaria 

Mayor Fandukova: More than 13 000 people in Sofia in quarantine

April 16, 2020April 16, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

Bulgaria’s capital Sofia is currently the city most affected by Covid-19, with 60 per cent of the country’s confirmed cases

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian courts impose huge fines on quarantine violators

April 16, 2020April 16, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

Bulgarian courts have been handing down huge fines to people violating mandatory quarantine orders. The Prosecutor’s Office said on April

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria sees record 24-hour increase in confirmed cases of Covid-19

April 16, 2020April 18, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

Bulgaria registered a record increase in the number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, as the

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Bulgaria 

Covid-19 in Bulgaria – Roundup, April 15: Mass testing to begin, Health Minister says

April 15, 2020April 16, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

Bulgaria is to begin mass testing of its citizens for new coronavirus, reports on April 15 quoted Health Minister Kiril

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