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Newly infected with Covid-19 are less than 5% of those tested for a day

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After 6,433 tests conducted in the past 24 hours, 297 newly infected patients were registered in the country, according to data of the Unified Information Portal. After 294,087 tests conducted since the beginning of the pandemic, 13,014 people with Covid-19 have been identified so far. 5,205 cases remain active. 874 patients are hospitalized as 47 are in intensive care units. Eleven people passed away in the past 24 hours, and the total number has reached 435. In the past 24 hours 220 patients have recovered and since the beginning of the epidemic the number of recovered people has reached 7,347.



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