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Bulgaria registers 14% positive tests for Covid-19 in past day

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Bulgaria has reported a total of 1,925 new cases of coronavirus for the past 24 hours, the data of the Unified Information Portal show. This is the largest number of new daily infections in the country since the beginning of the year. 14% of the 13,695 tests performed returned positive. In recent days, the percentage of new infections has remained at about 10%. Most of the new cases are in Sofia - 478, followed by Burgas - with 182, and Plovdiv - with 138.

The death toll from the virus in the past 24 hours is 79, with which Bulgaria is on the verge of reaching 10,000 victims of the pandemic. 

There are currently 3,933 patients with Covid-19 in hospital, of whom 334 are in intensive care units.

More than 130,000 people received their first vaccine, of which 11,709 were vaccinated in the last 24 hours. The two doses of the vaccine have so far been administered to a little less than 28 thousand people.



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