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Screams, insults, remarks about "experimental liquid" and "f*cking vaccines" marked the meeting of Vazrazhdane deputies and doctors with the Minister of Health Asena Serbezova.

As of January 17, 2022, temporary measures are being introduced in the military-industrial plant "Arsenal" AD in Kazanlak. Pursuant to Art. 173 of the Labor Code, all employees of the company go on paid annual leave from January 17 to February 11, 2022, the company stated.

Former NMSP (Tsar Simeon II’s political party) MP Prof. Yordan Mirchev becomes director-general of BDZ (Bulgarian Railways).

"I am very sorry that I am currently in quarantine, otherwise I would be at the protest to talk to the protesters." This is what Prime Minister Kiril Petkov said in an interview for BNR.

The government is preparing a new plan to deal with the Omicron wave of the coronavirus variant, which is expected to hit Bulgaria in full force in the second half of January.

President Rumen Radev's two caretaker governments have unilaterally fired 1,528 people from the state administration and appointed 3,916 others, or 2.5 times as many. This is according to a report by Prime Minister Kiril Petkov, which he provided to MP Desislava Trifonova (GERB-SDS) in response to her written questions.

The outgoing chairman of the Energy and Water Regulatory Commission(EWRC), Ivan Ivanov, assessed as inadmissible the 12-year delay in the gas connection with Greece. This is the obstacle at the moment for Bulgaria not to receive cheaper gas than the Russian one.

The Government of the Republic of North Macedonia has relieved Vlado Buckovski of the post of Special Representative of the country in the negotiations with Bulgaria for resolving the dispute between the two countries, BTA reported.

Four police officers were injured in preventing protesters from trying to enter the National Assembly building, the Interior Ministry stated.

Bulgaria: Protest Against the Green Certificate - Attempt to Storm the Parliament (LIVE Feeds)

Bulgaria: Protest Against the Green Certificate Began in front of Parliament

Bulgaria: Protest Against the Green Certificate Began in front of Parliament

The Republic of North Macedonia and the Republic of Albania, as neighboring and friendly countries, share the same values ​​and have a common future. This common future is in the EU, and I am convinced that both countries will soon start negotiations for EU membership because both North Macedonia and Albania have done everything they have been asked to do. It is now the EU's turn, said Dimitar Kovachevski, SDSM leader and mandate holder to form a new government at today's meeting with Albanian President Ilir Meta, MIA reported. Читать дальше...

The number of positive tests for COVID-19 taken in schools yesterday has increased more than 3.5 times compared to the examination on the first day after the Christmas holidays. This was announced by the Ministry of Education and Science.

The MPs extended the term of last year's budget until March 31, 2022, at first reading. The proposal of the Council of Ministers was supported by 122 votes "for", 10 "against" and 74 "abstained".

Yesterday, Prime Minister Kiril Petkov held an online meeting with the management of the five nationally representative employers' organizations - BICA, BIA, BCCI, CEIBG, and SSE, as well as with representatives of the management of the Bulgarian Association of Metallurgical Industry. This was announced by the press service of the Council of Ministers.

Twenty districts in Bulgaria are in the dark red zone in terms of COVID-19 incidence on a two-week basis. This is shown by the data from the National Center for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases.

Deputies commented on the protest of "Vazrazhdane" against the green certificate on the sidelines of the parliament. Party members and supporters staged a demonstration to disagree with the health measures. The protest was organized after the deputies agreed to enter the building of the National Assembly with a valid document for vaccination, illness, antibodies or a negative test for coronavirus.

Bulgaria: Protest Against the Green Certificate - Attempt to Storm the Parliament (LIVE Feeds)

A national protest against the introduced anti-epidemic measures will be held this afternoon in front of the National Assembly.

Chief State Health Inspector Angel Kunchev expects a time to come when every second person in Bulgaria will be in contact with a coronavirus virus. He explained to Nova TV that his assumption was related to the rapid spread of the Omicron variant, which affects too many people.

Novak Djokovic apologized for a "misjudgment of the situation" in a media interview while knowing he was positive for Covid-19, and admitted that his agent had made an administrative error in the travel form.

Global growth will "slow down significantly" this year as the Covid-19 epidemic and supply chain difficulties continue and government aid programs expire, the World Bank said.

Today the rains in almost the whole country will stop. The clouds will break and sunny weather will prevail in most areas. Significant clouds will remain over most of the Danube plain, in the highlands of Western Bulgaria and the extreme southeastern regions, where in some places there will be snow.

The number of new coronavirus cases per day has exceeded 7,000 for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic. This is shown by the data of the Unified Information Portal. The detected positive samples are 7,062 with 37 952 tests performed. The percentage of positive samples increased compared to the previous day and reached 18.6% of all tested.