Shumen

The Central Electoral Commission published the results with 100% of the protocols of the sectional electoral commissions have been processed throughout the country in the municipal electoral commissions in 27 regional cities.

In which cities and towns in Bulgaria will there be a runoff, this is revealed by the data from the Central Election Commission this morning. The data is still inconclusive. The percentages of protocols processed by city are different. As of 1 p.m., they are 100% in all regional cities except Sofia, Plovdiv and Shumen.

Blagoevgrad

Bulgarian firefighters are leaving for Greece today to help deal with the raging large forest fires. Bulgarian firefighters are expected to assist the Greek ground firefighting teams in the area of Alexandropoulis.

Several heavy-duty trucks are blocked on the Blagoevgrad-Bansko road in the area of the "Predel" pass. The passage is extremely difficult despite the efforts of the teams to clear the heavy snow.

The traffic jam is serious in the Razlog-Bansko direction, where the trucks are stuck, BNR reported.

Kostadin Angelov said that the health authorities will decide within days to impose new measures in the most affected areas of the coronavirus in the country.

 After several hours of discussions with representatives of the Regional Health Inspectorates (RHI) and representatives of the National Operations and Vaccination Headquarters.

"We shouldn't count chickens before they are hatched," Health Minister Kostadin Angelov told journalists in Varna, where he is on a visit today admitting of the chaos in the vaccination campaign.

"I can't take any commitments because the result does not depend on us," he said.

Only 3 areas are designated in red on Bulgaria's covid-19 morbidity map These are Vratsa, Kyustendil and Pleven. This became clear during the regular briefing of the National Operational Headquarters.

The crew of a ship that arrived from northern Italy at the oil port in Burgas have been put under a quarantine. There are about 25 Filipinos aboard the vessel as the ship left Venice on February 21st and reached the Rosenetz Burgas port on Thursday. The tanker has a yellow flag raised and will remain with it until its departure from Burgas, medical authorities said.

All 17 samples for the new COVID-19 coronavirus were negative. They belong to patients in hospitals in Burgas, Pleven, Stara Zagora, Shumen, Varna, Haskovo, Sofia and Ruse, the Ministry of Health reported.

The samples were examined at the National Reference Laboratory of the National Center for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases.

Dangerously high pollution was registered this morning in Vidin, Ruse and Plovdiv, according to a NOVA report on the European Commission's Air Quality Index portal.

In Vidin, measuring instruments of the Environmental Executive Agency reported a fine particulate matter concentration of 125 micrograms per cubic meter, which is more than 2 times the norm.