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In (potential) upcoming autumn parliamentary elections, GERB is projected to lead with 23% support, according to a survey by Market Links conducted between July 20 and 28. "We Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria" (WCC-DB) is expected to receive 15.3% of the vote.

The Bulgarian telecom operator Telenor may change ownership again, just two years after the Czech group PPF owned by Petr Kellner purchased the company. This was featured in Mergermarket, a specialized merger and acquisition information platform, citing anonymous industry directors as sources, as reported by Capital.

About BGN 9 leva will be the price of one mask with a reusable respirator valve on the market. This was reported to bTV by Biser Sharkov, who is the manager of a medical textile company. His company started producing similar masks from yesterday. For a day they could make about 5 thousand masks, and if there is a high demand they can rise the production.

US Republican Senator Marco Rubio has asked the US Secretary of the Treasury and the Attorney General to launch "a full review of the national security implication of AT&T's upcoming sale of the Central European Media Group Enterprises, CME, to the Czech-owned conglomerate PPF Group".

Another Bulgarian is in the city of Wuhan - the heart of the coronavirus epidemic. This was reported to bTV by Vladislav Spasov, temporarily managing the Bulgarian Embassy in Beijing,

There was information about three Bulgarian students who were located in the metropolis. Our fourth compatriot is also a student.
None of the four is permanently resident there.

Two trams collided on the capital's Hristo Botev Blvd. between Macedonia Square and Alexander Stamboliyski Blvd., bTV reported.

It is still unclear whether there are victims or injured.

Apparently the two passenger vehicles were seriously damaged.

There is a lot of traffic jams.

Departure passengers are evacuated from Terminal 1 at Sofia Airport, bTV reported.

According to initial information, the evacuation is due to a fire. The alarm went off at about 12.30.

There is no information whether there are victims and about what triggered the alarm.

Expect details!

Woman killed in gas station explosion in Dobrich. Another woman was injured. The incident happened around 8 pm last night at the exit of Varna. According to preliminary data, a gas cylinder of a car exploded during charging. The blasted car is almost completely destroyed. There were two women in it - a mother and a daughter, bTV reports.

"Very few people are talking about what is the percentage of microplastics in the air. There are many of them and it is natural for the people to inhale them," said pulmonologist Dr. Alexander Simidchiev, bTV reported.

A 20-year-old man managed to stop a tram on Graf Ignatiev Street in Sofia after seeing that the vehicle was not driven by anyone and was moving by inertia, bTV reported.