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Covid-19 in Bulgaria: Day 362

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Bulgaria launches electronic register for vaccinations against Covid-19
The electronic register of citizens wishing to be vaccinated against Covid-19 will start operation today at 5 pm, but the first time slot that can be booked for vaccination is for March 11. This became clear during the presentation of the platform today. 
Bulgaria's Minister of Health Kostadin Angelov, who attended the presentation, announced that in this way it would be much easier to organize the logistics in the vaccination centres and avoid crowding of people. 
So far, there have been no unused doses of the delivered vaccines, unlike in other countries, Angelov added, as quoted by BNR.

Bulgaria is now seeing the third wave of Covid-19
We are now witnessing the third wave of Covid-19 in Bulgaria. As a result, the coronavirus morbidity and occupancy of hospital beds have increased slightly, this country’s Minister of Health Professor Kostadin Angelov said at the regular weekly briefing on the spread of Covid-19 in Bulgaria. 
However, Minister Angelov highlighted a positive fact - the morbidity/recovery ratio has decreased to 2:1 in the past week, whereas last week, the number of new coronavirus infections was three times higher than the number of Covid-19 recoveries.
The increase in the number of Covid-19 cases is due to the quick spread of the British coronavirus variant, Minister Angelov went on to say. Currently, there are 285 new cases of Covid-19 per 100,000 people, but the gap between different Bulgarian districts is huge.

Bulgaria ranks 18th in the EU in terms of coronavirus morbidity. So far, almost 250,000 vaccines have been administered in Bulgaria. 41,000 people have received their second dose of Covid-19 vaccine. The number of Covid-19 hospitalizations exceeds 5,000. 

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Bulgaria reports 1,154 new cases of Covid-19, number of hospitalizations increases
1,154 new cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed in Bulgaria in the past 24 hours out of 6,182 tests performed, indicate data of the Single Coronavirus Information Portal. 18.7% of the tests have returned positive. The highest number of coronavirus infection was reported in Sofia-380, followed by Plovdi district-190 and Plovdiv district-77.
There are 33,770 active cases of Covid-19 at present. There are 5,093 patients in hospital, as 425 of them are in intensive care units. 589 people have recovered from the virus in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of recoveries to 209,000. 22 patients with Covid-19 have died in the past 24 hours, bringing the total Covid-19 death toll to 10,413 since the beginning of the pandemic.
4,397 vaccines have been administered in the past 24 hours. The total number of inoculations amounts to 248,169. 41,837 people have already received their second dose of Covid-19 vaccine.

Compiled by Elena Karkalanova


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