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Precautions as international flights at Bulgaria’s Varna Airport resume

May 8, 2020May 8, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

Varna mayor Ivan Portnih announced on May 8 that he was restricting public bus travel at Varna Airport as Wizz

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria: March saw jump in retail figures of pharmacies, online sales

May 8, 2020May 10, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

March 2020 saw turnover at Bulgaria’s pharmacies and drug stores up by 14.4 per cent on an annual basis, while

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Tourism Minister: Domestic tourism resumes on May 13

May 8, 2020May 10, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus, tourism

Domestic tourism in Bulgaria will resume on May 13, when the end of the State of Emergency means that the

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Bulgaria 

Covid-19: Restaurateurs in Bulgaria’s Veliko Turnovo protest against table-spacing rules

May 8, 2020May 9, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

Restaurateurs in Bulgaria’s city of Veliko Turnovo were holding a symbolic protest on May 8 against the rules for opening

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Eurostat: Retail trade in Bulgaria dropped 18% in March 2020, biggest decrease in EU

May 8, 2020May 9, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

Bulgaria had the largest drop in retail trade in the European Union in March 2020 compared with February, at 18.1

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Bulgaria 

Covid-19 in Bulgaria, May 7: 51 new cases, more convictions for quarantine-breaking

May 7, 2020May 8, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

The number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Bulgaria has increased by 51 in the past 24 hours to a

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Bulgaria 

Covid-19: Bulgaria redirects 400 million leva in EU funds to fight economic slowdown

May 7, 2020May 8, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

Bulgaria’s Government approved on May 7 the allocation of nearly 400 million leva, or about 204 million euro, in EU

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM: If coronavirus cases rise by more than 100 a day, restrictions will come back

May 7, 2020May 8, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

If the number of confirmed cases of new coronavirus increases by more than 100 a day, recently-rescinded anti-epidemic restrictions will

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Bulgaria 

EC sees unemployment in Bulgaria reaching 7% in 2020, GDP contracting by 7%

May 6, 2020May 8, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

Bulgaria’s real GDP is projected to contract by more than seven per cent in 2020, largely because of measures against

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