Natural sciences

Drinking water in the southern Bulgarian town of Lyubimets is not safe for human consumption due to an increased arsenic content found in it. The problem affects about 8,000 people who as of today are unable to use the tap water for drinking and cooking, although it will not be stopped so that it can be used for all other needs.

A member of the Crisis Staff, epidemiologist Predrag Kon, said that the potential of the coronavirus was slowly declining, but also warned that "we should not allow the situation to get worse."

Today at 12.02 pm the astronomical winter arrives and the winter solstice. With the winter solstice comes the longest night in the Northern Hemisphere and the shortest day in the southern part of the world.

Shortly after 6 pm, it will be possible to observe the conjunction of the two largest planets in the solar system, Jupiter and Saturn.

A seven-day quarantine will be imposed on arrivals to Greece from the United Kingdom, starting 6 a.m. Monday, the General Secretariat for Civil Protection announced Sunday.

Arrivals from any other country continue to face a 3-day quarantine. The measure affecting the UK has to do with the discovery there of a new coronavirus strain.

However, as he said, "reality is as it is" and that "they will consider this decision again".
He said on RTS that he did not even know why the application of the measure that one can enter Serbia only with a negative PCR test was postponed for two days and is valid only from midnight.

From tomorrow, they are allowed to enter only if they have a negative PCR test, not older than 48 hours or a ten-day quarantine.

2,042 are the new cases of COVID-19 for the last 24 hours in Bulgaria. 6 825 PCR tests were performed. Nearly 30 percent of them are positive. This is shown by the data on the Unified Information Portal.

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Most new cases are in Sofia - 361, followed by Varna - with 207 and Burgas - 202 new cases.

Turkey's Energy and Natural Resources Minister Fatih Dönmez on Dec. 16 launched a new Turkish-made dishwasher liquid detergent product, which will be marketed under the brand name BORON.

The National Organization for Public Health (EODY) reported 98 new deaths from Covid-19 on Tuesday, which raised the number of overall fatalities to 3,785.

The median age of those who died was 79 years.

EODY also confirmed 1,240 new infections which drove the total number to 126,372. Of these new cases, 14 were reported at the country's entry points,

This will be followed by a new session to discuss the introduction of new or modification of existing measures.
"The measures taken so far have had effects," said Kisic Tepavcevic, adding:
"You can see the fall of the newly infected."