Three teachers from a kindergarten in Sofia have tested positive for Covid-19, Sofia Mayor Yordanka Fandakova announced on Facebook.
The two groups in which they were teaching will be closed, the parents of all children have been notified. The entire kindergarten staff, the children from the two groups and their parents will be tested for coronavirus. The kindergarten will be fully disinfected.
Headmistress Rositsa Alexieva said, for the BNR, that the tests will be performed after it was ascertained that 7 of the kindergarten staff had spent the weekend in Sarnitsa in the Rhodopes where there is an outbreak of the infection.
The government is working to reduce as much as possible the time taken to pay compensation to victims of the country's recent fires. All those affected will be able to receive up to BGN 1 578 (EUR 800) from the Social Assistance Agency for emergency..
Farmers in the Eastern Rhodopes have reported a critical fodder situation due to the drought. Grazing areas have been severely reduced and water is scarce due to the hot weather. The drought has put fodder resources at risk. Extra hay, normally..
Mobile operators will take urgent steps to improve mobile network coverage for the population in the village of Voden and several neighboring villages . This was decided at a meeting initiated by Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev and Transport and..
A total of 60 officers from the Bezmer and Kabile units are on the ground with equipment for firefighting, Bulgaria's Defence Minister Atanas Zapryanov..
A state of emergency remains in force in seven villages in the border municipality of Bolyarovo. The fight against the fire at the village of Voden..
A fire has started in Greece a kilometre and a half from the Bulgarian border and is slowly moving towards it. The fire is located in an extremely..
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