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A new four-digit number, 1110, was activated for callers who wish to report price-gouging of medical supplies and to ask for coronavirus information, the Region of Attica and the Athens Medical Association reported on Wednesday.

Of the nearly 300,000 calls made to the Environment and Urbanization Ministry’s call center in 2017, one caller stood out by complaining of the seagull noise, Doğan News Agency reported on Jan. 13.

70% of the emergency calls in Bulgaria are not urgent or are fake, reported bTV. 

Losses for these calls reach up to BGN 16 million only for this year. There is no information about sanctioned people.

Ethiopia's parliament on Aug. 4 lifted a nationwide state of emergency decreed last year after Africa's second most-populous country was rocked by months of protests.

Around 60% of the calls to the 112 emergency phone number in 2014 were unjustified, according to Stoyan Gramatikov, head of the National System 112 Directorate at the Interior Ministry.

In a Wednesday interview for the Bulgarian National Television, Gramatikov claimed that the share of malicious calls was relatively small, at 0.12%.

Bulgaria's Health Ministry launched an additional emergency hotline for those who cannot reach the 112 number.

At the number 02 805 03 00 will be received calls for emergency health issues and the calls will be transferred to the ambulance centres in the corresponding area.