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Bulgaria reports record number of 240 new cases with highest number of tests per day

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There are 240 newly discovered cases of coronavirus in Bulgaria with a record number of 4,286 PCR tests made in the last 24 hours, according to the Unified Information Portal. 

The highest number of new cases is in Sofia - 71, followed by Plovdiv with 21 cases and Blagoevgrad with 17. 
The total number of infections since the beginning of the pandemic is 6,342. There are 2,917 active cases. 498 persons are hospitalized, of which 29 are in intensive care units. 
For the last 24 hours 129 patients have been cured and the total number of recovered patients has reached 3,166. 

Five new fatalities have been registered in the past 24 hours as the number of victims since the beginning of the crisis has reached 259.



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