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Bulgaria reports high number of new cases, deaths in past day

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The new cases of Covid-19 registered in Bulgaria for the past day amount to 4,826, according to the National Coronavirus Information Portal. With 30,772 tests were performed, 15.7% returned positive. There are 595 patients in intensive care units. 768 people are the newly admitted to hospitals, and 100 of them are vaccinated (13.02%). 

136 people died in the last 24 hours, and 1,180 patients were reported cured.
Most new cases are registered in Sofia - 1,399, Plovdiv - 477, Varna - 430, and Stara Zagora - 236.
The number of people immunized during the last 24 hours is 24,042, with them the total number has reached 2,709,549. There are already 1,430,115 people with a completed vaccination cycle in Bulgaria, and 11,968 with three doses.



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