World Bank slightly raises growth outlook for Bulgaria
The World Bank has slightly increased its forecast real GDP growth outlook for Bulgaria for 2022, to 3.8 per cent,
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Bulgaria reduces Covid-19 isolation, quarantine periods
An order issued on January 11 by Bulgaria’s Health Minister Assena Serbezova cuts, with immediate effect, the mandatory isolation period
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Bulgarian PM’s January 18 visit to North Macedonia postponed – report
A visit to Skopje by a delegation headed by Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov that had been planned for January
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Bulgaria’s Health Minister halts procedure to buy 12.5M Covid tests for pupils
Bulgaria’s Health Minister Assena Serbezova has terminated a procedure to buy 12.5 million rapid antigen tests for school pupils and
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Covid-19: Most of Bulgaria’s leadership self-isolating after Radev’s meeting
Much of Bulgaria’s political leadership is in self-isolation, pending decisions on quarantine, after it emerged that the Speaker of the
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Covid-19 dark red zones in Bulgaria rise to 17
The number of districts in Bulgaria classified as Covid-19 dark red zones – meaning a morbidity rate of 500 or
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Covid-19 in Bulgaria: In past day, 116 deaths, 6761 new cases registered
The deaths of 116 people in Bulgaria who had tested positive for Covid-19 were registered in the past day, bringing
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Covid-19: Bulgaria’s capital halts hospital admissions, visits
Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia is halting planned admissions, operations and visits to hospitals as of midnight on January 12 as
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Covid-19 in Bulgaria: Omicron variant found in 52 of 505 samples sequenced by NCIPD
Bulgaria’s National Centre for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases (NCIPD) said on January 10 that it has found the Omicron coronavirus
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