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European auditors: Covid-19 recovery billions could have done more for EU businesses

October 27, 2025October 27, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

European Union countries only partially addressed problems with the business environment by implementing the reforms and investments they had pledged

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria begins autumn-winter 2025/26 immunisation campaign against Covid-19

September 18, 2025September 18, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

The Covid-19 immunisation campaign for the autumn-winter season 2025/2026 has started, the Bulgarian Health Ministry’s website plusmen.bg said on September

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Europe 

Eurostat: Circulatory diseases were main cause of death in EU in 2022

March 21, 2025March 21, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

In 2022, there were 5.16 million deaths among residents of the European Union and the main causes of death across

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Europe 

European auditors: EU pandemic recovery fund checks of public procurement, state aid still not up to scratch

March 10, 2025March 10, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

The European Commission (EC) still cannot be certain that EU countries have effective systems to ensure that the EU’s 650

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria has spent more than 145M leva on Covid-19 vaccines that it scrapped

January 5, 2025January 6, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

Bulgaria has spent more than 145 million leva on more than five million doses of vaccines that it scrapped between

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Foreign Ministry issues advisory about rise in Covid-19 cases in Greece

July 21, 2024July 21, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Greece, new coronavirus

Greece recently has seen a noticeable increase in the number of cases of Covid-19, Bulgaria’s Foreign Ministry situation centre said.

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria ends daily publication of official statistics on Covid-19

June 30, 2024June 30, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

Official information about cases of Covid-19 in Bulgaria will now be published once a week and from July 1, the

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Bulgaria 

Eurostat: Bulgaria had EU’s highest Covid-19 death rate in 2021

May 7, 2024May 7, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

In the population aged less than 65 years, the highest standardised death rate from Covid-19 among the EU member states

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Bulgaria 

Covid-19 in Bulgaria: Omicron strain found in all 28 samples – NCIPD

April 25, 2024April 25, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

Bulgaria’s National Centre for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases (NCIPD) said that it has completed the sequencing of the latest group

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