"We have been working with an analogue of the coronavirus, which was isolated back in the 1960s and from studying the reactions of this less pathogenic virus we can predict how antiviral substances would act on the current virus." This was what Assoc. Prof. Penka Petrova, Director of the Institute of Microbiology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences told Nova TV.
The academy has nearly 70 synthesized substances being tested for the first time against coronavirus, and 22 of them are "particularly promising." "The virus dies exposed to ultraviolet light," said Assoc. Prof. Penka Petrova, adding that the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences has been developing a method based on electric charring to be used in protective masks.
Romania renegotiates its National Recovery and Resilience Plan with the EU The European Commission has approved a new version of Romania's National Recovery and Resilience Plan, announced Minister for European Funds Dragos Păslaru, quoted by..
For Chrissy Brand, a freelance journalist and long-time radio enthusiast from the UK, the trip to Bulgaria didn't start with a call to a travel agency or a low-cost airline ticket. It began decades ago in a quiet room filled with the humming of an old..
Today, 24 October, a new Bulgarian school in Spain – in the town of Fraga in the autonomous community of Aragon - is opening doors for the start of the school year. The new school is a branch of the Seven Apostles – the only Bulgarian school in the..
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