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With 17 new cases, number of Covid-19 infections in Bulgaria totals 2,460

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17 are the newly established cases of coronavirus in Bulgaria during the past 24 hours. 1,557 tests were carried out as the total number of coronavirus infections has reached 2,460, said Assoc. Prof. Dimo ​​Dimov, Secretary of the National Operational Headquarters. 

217 patients have been hospitalized, 22 of them in intensive care units. There are no new infected persons under 18 years of age. One of the newly diagnosed cases is of a medical professional. 
The tendency for recovered patients to be more than the newly established virus cases continues. For the last 24 hours, 32 patients have been cured. With them, those cured since the beginning of the crisis reached 912. 
Three new deaths have been registered past 24 hours - a 70-year-old woman in Plovdiv, a 74-year-old woman in Sliven and a 73-year-old woman in Sofia, all with comorbidities.


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