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Covid-19 in Bulgaria: 4258 active cases, two more deaths

July 19, 2020July 20, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

The number of active cases of Covid-19 in Bulgaria has risen by 146 in the past 24 hours to a

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s annual Bourgas Sand Sculpture Festival open till end-September

July 18, 2020July 18, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff

The annual sand sculpture festival in Bulgaria’s Black Sea city of Bourgas has opened, and will continue until the end

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Bulgaria 

As Bulgaria marks anniversary of airport attack, call for EU to designate Hezbollah terrorist organisation

July 18, 2020July 21, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff Bourgas terrorist attack

The embassy of Israel held a wreath-laying ceremony on July 17 at Bourgas Airport, on the eve of the eighth

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Bulgaria 

Covid-19 in Bulgaria: 4112 active cases, 606 in hospital, four more deaths

July 18, 2020July 19, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

The number of active cases of Covid-19 in Bulgaria has risen by 188 in the past 24 hours to reach

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian railways asks public to vote on new locomotive design

July 17, 2020July 17, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian state railways BDZ has invited the public to vote online on the choice of design for its new Siemens

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Bulgaria 

Covid-19 in Bulgaria: Short-staffed hospital in Plovdiv in recruiting drive

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

The Sveti Mina hospital in Plovdiv is urgently recruiting doctors, nurses and orderlies to work in the Covid-19 treatment ward,

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Bulgaria 

Fitch sees Bulgaria as ‘unlikely’ to join euro area before 2024

July 17, 2020July 21, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff euro zone

Fitch Ratings said on July 17 that Bulgaria’s admission to the Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM2), the euro zone’s “waiting room”,

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Bulgaria 

Eurostat: Close to two-thirds of births in Bulgaria are outside marriage

July 17, 2020July 17, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff

Fifty-nine per cent of live births in Bulgaria in 2018 were outside marriage, European Union statistics agency Eurostat said on

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Bulgaria 

Covid-19 in Bulgaria: Cases pass 8000-mark after record number of tests

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

The total number of confirmed cases of new coronavirus in Bulgaria has risen to 8144, of which 3924 are active,

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