675 new cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed in Bulgaria in the past 24 hours out of 2,151 PCR tests performed, data of the Single Information Portal show. 31% of all PCR tests have returned positive. 603 people have recovered and 33 have died in the past 24 hours. The number of active cases reached 49,087. A total of 3,822 patients are receiving treatment in hospitals, 272 of whom are in intensive care wards.
The fourteen-day morbidity in Bulgaria has exceeded 300 Covid-19 cases per 100,000 people, this country’s Minister of Health Professor Kostadin Angelov said at a briefing, BTA reports. General Practitioners and polyclinics will also make Covid-19 diagnostics. Covid-19 zones will be set up in polyclinics in Bulgaria’s capital Sofia and other big cities where a physician, a nurse and a laboratory assistant are to make diagnostics until the end of the year. Patients will be able to undergo medical examination, Covid-19 testing and X-ray examination. The cabinet will finance these activities with EUR 40 million, Minister Angelov said.
Prokopan is the only railway tunnel on the Plovdiv-Burgas line. This became clear during a visit by Deputy Minister of Transport Lyuben Nanov, who was on-site to see the progress in the modernization of the Orizovo-Mihaylovo railway section. The..
Unemployment benefits in Sofia continue to be above the minimum wage, according to the latest data from the National Social Security Institute. It is the highest in the country and is on average 1,145 leva (585.43 EUR). The lowest unemployment..
"Yes, Bulgaria" party (part of "Democratic Bulgaria") have defined the budget for next year as an "economic tsunami". MP Ivaylo Mirchev was firm that the pary will oppose it when the project comes up for discussion in parliament. "Yesterday we were..
The European Commission has presented a proposal for developing high-speed railway lines within the EU until 2040, linking the capitals in the EU, among..
Birth rate in Bulgaria has decreased by 33% over the past three decades. In 1994, 79,442 live births were registered in the country, while in 2024 the..
The European Commission has decided to withhold EUR 215 million from the second payment under Bulgaria’s recovery and resilience plan, the EC told the..
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