News archive of August 2020

A 19-year-old died after being infected with a coronavirus. He was hospitalized in а critical condition in the hospital in Veliko Tarnovo. Doctors were unable to save him. It is alleged that the young man became infected during the prom celebrations in the old capital. The boy is also the youngest case of a person who died with the disease in our country.

Serbia started building a COVID-19 hospital on the site of the Rasina military complex in the central city of Krusevac, defence minister Aleksandar Vulin said.

The hospital, which will have a capacity of 500 beds, should be built within the shortest possible timeframe, Vulin said in a statement on Saturday, after a visit to the site of the future facility.

Slovenia has added Bulgaria to the "red list" of countries with an unstable epidemiological situation and arrivals from Bulgaria are subject to a mandatory 14-day quarantine, the Foreign Ministry in Sofia said.

The measure applies to citizens arriving from Bulgaria, as well as all passengers with temporary or permanent residence in Bulgaria, irrespective of their citizenship.

An increase in confirmed cases of new coronavirus among police in Bulgaria's capital city Sofia has resulted in a decision to reduce by about a third the number of police guarding the anti-government protests, the Interior Ministry said on August 1.

A police officer was on Saturday being treated for injuries sustained when a motorist he tried to stop for an inspection in the area of Karditsa, central Greece, on Friday accelerated in a bid to avoid the check, striking the official in the process.

The ban on the landing of airplanes at Vienna airport from 18 countries, among them Bulgaria, has been lifted.

A civic initiative called #hiljadekamera ('thousands of cameras' in English), has been raising concerns about the deterioration of privacy in Serbia resulting from the introduction of video surveillance system with advanced facial recognition in the capital Belgrade. As part of the campaign, a documentary with the same title, was released.

According to him, there has been a gradual decrease in the registration of newly diagnosed cases and tests in COVID dispensaries, and the presence in COVID hospitals is decreasing.
He pointed out, being hosted at RTS daily bulletin, that great caution is still required.
"If we respect the prescribed measures, we will get out of this," he says.

A light aircraft overloaded with cocaine crashed on take-off on its way to Australia, police said on Saturday, exposing a Melbourne-based crime syndicate and leading to the arrest of five men with alleged links to the Italian mafia.

The Athens municipal council has decided to extend the pilot project of the Grand Walk initiative, a network of pedestrianized streets and bicycle lanes, for another three months.