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Bulgaria’s Pamporovo to open 2020/2021 ski season on December 19

December 15, 2020December 17, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff tourism

Bulgaria’s mountain resort of Pamporovo is to open its 2020/2021 ski season on December 19, according to a notice on

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Bulgaria annual CPI records 0.4% inflation in November

December 15, 2020December 16, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff macroeconomic indicators, new coronavirus

Bulgaria’s annual consumer price index (CPI) recorded 0.4 per cent inflation in November, down from 0.8 per cent a month

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Bulgaria 

Covid-19 in Bulgaria: 47 mobile teams will take part in vaccination campaign

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

Forty-seven mobile teams will be involved in Bulgaria’s national campaign of vaccination against Covid-19, a statement on the national information

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Bulgaria 

Covid-19 in Bulgaria: 150 more deaths, active cases total 90 128

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

A hundred and fifty people in Bulgaria who had tested positive for Covid-19 died in the past 24 hours, bringing

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Bansko to open ski season on December 17

December 14, 2020December 17, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus, tourism

Bulgaria’s mountain resort of Bansko has become the first this year to announce the date of its opening of the

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s winter resorts ‘in no hurry to open ski season’

December 14, 2020December 15, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus, tourism

Unlike previous years, none of Bulgaria’s mountain resorts that offers winter sports is in a hurry to open the ski

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Bulgaria 

Covid-19: 25 526 people in Bulgaria fined for not wearing protective mask

December 14, 2020December 15, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

A total of 25 526 people in Bulgaria have been fined since March 13 for not wearing a protective mask,

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Bulgaria 

Contract worth 11.5M euro signed for a new supercomputing system in Bulgaria

December 14, 2020December 15, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff

The European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking, which pools European resources to buy and deploy world-class supercomputers and technologies, announced on December

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Bulgaria 

Covid-19 in Bulgaria: 62 more deaths, active cases fall by 1528

December 14, 2020December 15, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

A total of 62 people in Bulgaria who had tested positive for Covid-19 died in the past 24 hours, bringing

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