Izgrev

The mayor of the "Izgrev" district in Sofia, Dr. Delyan Georgiev, announced the completion of the new nursery located within the residential complex of "Iztok". Dr. Georgiev revealed in a Facebook post that the land for the nursery was procured by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, marking a collaborative effort to address the community's childcare needs.

Two 13-year-old boys and one 14-year-old boy were arrested for throwing stones at a public transport bus in Burgas, according to the police.

Runoffs for mayor are looming this Sunday in most Sofia districts. En masse, they will be between the candidates of "We Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria"-"Spasi Sofia" and those of GERB.

Sofia Regional Governor Ivan Kyuchukov has declared illegal the decisions to rename an alley and a square to "Heroes of Ukraine Alley" and "Boris Nemtsov Square" near the Russian Embassy, ​​as well as raising the Ukrainian flag over the Sofia Municipality building.

Sofia this morning is on the 8th place in the world ranking for dirty air, according to the data on the quality of the atmospheric air on www.iqair.com

By noon today, rainfall in the northwestern half of the country will weaken and stop. It will continue to rain in the southeastern half, mostly snow. In the Rhodope region and the extreme southeastern regions, the precipitation will be significant in quantity, in the evening and at night against Thursday, and then will weaken and stop.

So far, 1,627,049 people have been counted by filling in the electronic card. They live in 713,678 households, the National Statistical Institute reported.

The Prime Minister announced categorically that neither the borders nor the settlements will be closed anymore.

According to PM Boyko Borissov, the strength of the COVID-19 epidemic is no longer so strong and hospitals have been strengthened enough.

A village near Shumen is being closed due to a COVID-19 outbreak. The regional crisis headquarters in Shumen decided to install checkpoints at the entrances of the village of Izgrev and to prohibit entry and exit from the settlement. A total of 15 cases of coronavirus have been registered in the village. 

Sofia Mayor Yordanka Fandakova presented, at a briefing, a municipal project for the construction, in the capital city, of a 3- kilometre bike lane, a significant part of which in a park, BNR reported.