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Covid-19: Bulgarian MP expelled from sitting for refusal to wear mask

October 23, 2020October 24, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

A member of Parliament for the opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party, Rossen Malinov, was expelled from the October 23 sitting of

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Covid-19 in Bulgaria: 16 new deaths, 1595 new cases, 16 033 active

October 23, 2020October 24, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

Sixteen people in Bulgaria who had tested positive for new coronavirus died in the past 24 hours, bringing the country’s

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Bulgaria 

Covid-19: Bulgaria reduces quarantine period for contact persons to 10 days

October 22, 2020October 24, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

Bulgaria’s Health Minister Kostadin Angelov issued a new order on October 22, which reduced the length of the quarantine period

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Bulgaria 

Covid-19: Bulgaria puts half-capacity limit on restaurants, bars and discos

October 22, 2020October 24, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

From midnight on October 22, a new rule to limit the spread of Covid-19 in Bulgaria will come into effect,

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Bulgaria 

Covid-19 in Bulgaria: Medics are exhausted, Health Minister warns

October 22, 2020October 23, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

The biggest problem in Bulgaria’s Covid-19 situation is the medics on the front line as “most of them are infected,

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Bulgaria 

Covid-19: Germany adds Bulgaria’s capital Sofia, two other districts, to list of risk areas

October 22, 2020October 23, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia and the districts of Razgrad and Sliven have been added to Germany’s Robert Koch Institute’s list

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From October 24, people arriving in Malta from Bulgaria must show negative PCR tests

October 22, 2020October 22, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

From October 24, people arriving in Malta from Bulgaria will have to present a negative result of a PCR test,

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Bulgaria 

Media freedom core issue in resignation of Bulgarian National Radio head

October 22, 2020October 22, 2020 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Media

At the core of the controversy around the resignation of Bulgarian National Radio director-general Andon Baltakov are the issues of

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Bulgaria 

Covid-19 in Bulgaria: 29 more deaths, 1472 new cases, 14 689 active

October 22, 2020October 23, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

Twenty-nine people in Bulgaria who had tested positive for new coronavirus died in the past day, bringing the country’s death

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