Новости за 03.01.2022

Relations between Germany and Russia have once again strained around the New Year and Christmas holidays after Berlin banned the broadcasting of the Russian TV channel Russia Today. Earlier, Youtube removed the television network from its website because it violated numerous community standards.

We envisage intensive talks with Bulgaria, but the new government in Skopje must be voted on first. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is currently working on the topics that will be discussed during the next meeting. This was stated by the Foreign Minister of the Republic of North Macedonia Bujar Osmani during today's press conference, at which he presented the country's priorities as the future rotating chairman of the OSCE in 2023.

The new cabinet will try to make Bulgaria a slightly more western-looking place. It will make modernization in every sphere - administration, digitalization, catching up with the other European countries, said the executive director of Gallup International Balkan Parvan Simeonov to BNR.

"Thanks to vaccination, we are seeing a recovery in the market of 40-45%. More than 10,000 Bulgarian citizens traveled through tour operators to distant destinations, and more than 600,000 Bulgarians traveled inland.” This was stated by the executive director of the National Board of Tourism Polina Karastoyanova.

Recurrent infections with Omicron are five times more common than Delta. This was stated by the director of the National Center for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases Prof. Iva Hristova in the studio of Nova TV

The leader of the Bulgarian political party “There Is Such a People” had this to say:

There will be no shock price increase, said on BNT TV the chairman of the State Commission on Commodity Exchanges and Markets Vladimir Ivanov.

It has already been proven that if you have Omicron, you will not catch Delta, this will protect you from other variants. This was stated on BNT TV by Prof. Todor Kantardzhiev, a day after it became clear that the new variant is already in Bulgaria.

Traffic is expected today. Police teams are on the ground ready to assist the traffic. The peak is expected around noon. This was said at a briefing by Chief Inspector Lachezar Bliznakov of the Traffic Police.

Full lockdown is out of the question if you ask me. This was said in an interview for bTV by the Chief State Health Inspector Assoc. Prof. Angel Kunchev.

A Russian expert predicted that the coronavirus pandemic could end by May 2022, if we follow all anti-epidemic measures and mass immunization, TASS reported

The number of confirmed cases of coronavirus infection in the world in December 2021 exceeded the November figures by 8.5 million and reached a total of 24.7 million people, TASS reported. Thus, global morbidity has reached its peak for the entire pandemic, exceeding the previous record level of April 2021, when more than 22 million people were infected.

Germany welcomed the European Union's plan to define some energy gas projects as "green" investments, but emphasized that it continued to oppose the proposal to do the same for nuclear energy projects.

US President Joe Biden discussed upcoming contacts with Russia on security guarantees in a telephone conversation with Ukrainian counterpart Vladimir Zelensky on Sunday. This was announced by the press service of the White House after the conversation, TASS reports.

The maximum temperatures will be mostly between 12° and 17° Celsius, in Sofia - around 14°C. This was announced for FOCUS News Agency by the weather forecaster on duty from the National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (NIMH) Evgenia Egova.

During the last 24 hours, 12,855 tests for coronavirus were performed in the country and 1,356 of them were positive, according to the Unified Information Portal.