Podcast in English
Text size
Bulgarian National Radio © 2024 All Rights Reserved

4,390 newly registered Covid-19 cases, or almost 40% of all tests performed

Photo: BGNES

4,390 is the number of newly reported coronavirus cases over the past 24 hours, or 39,66% of the 11,068 PCR tests performed, Single Information Portal data show.

This is the highest number of new infections on a daily basis since the start of the pandemic.

4,176 people with coronavirus are in hospital, 280 of them in intensive care. The number of active cases has reached 55,716.The number of recoveries in 24 hours is 516, the number of deaths - 80. A total of 83,366 people have contracted Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic and 25,799 have recovered.

155 is the number of infections among medical staff over the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of infections among health workers up to 3,278.



Последвайте ни и в Google News Showcase, за да научите най-важното от деня!
Listen to the daily news from Bulgaria presented in "Bulgaria Today" podcast, available in Spotify.

More from category

Dimitar Glavchev

Dimitar Glavchev says he is ready to be caretaker PM again but not foreign minister

Caretaker Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev stated that he will accept a proposal to be caretaker PM again if President Rumen Radev assigns him this position. President of Bulgarian Parliament Raya Nazaryan refuses to be caretaker PM “I..

published on 8/6/24 9:43 AM

Ceiling caves in and injures seven at wedding in Kardzhali

A plasterboard ceiling of a wedding hall came crashing down on top of 150 guests in Kardzhali. Seven people have sustained non-life threatening injuries during the incident which took place on Monday night, among them one child. At the time of the..

published on 8/6/24 9:26 AM

Two Spanish aircraft to join efforts to extinguish the wildfire in Mount Slavyanka on the border with Greece

A new flare-up of the big wildfire on the Greek side of Slavyanka mountain has crossed the border into Bulgaria, extending the perimeter of the fire over 120 hectares of Bulgarian territory. Heavy bulldozers are making wide clearings so as to..

published on 8/6/24 8:50 AM