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Active Covid-19 cases up in past day

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1,104 is the number of newly registered Covid-19 cases out of the 8,634 tests performed in the country in the past day, a positivity rate of 12.8%. More than 71% of the new infections are among the unvaccinated, Single Coronavirus Information Portal data show.

The number of active cases in the country is 212,790, up by 318 from the previous day.

112 is the number of new hospital admissions, almost 85% of them among the unvaccinated.

3,445 patients are being treated in hospital, 436 of them in intensive care.

20 Covid-19 patients have died in the past day, 19 of them were not vaccinated.

766 is the number of recoveries.

March 3 was Bulgaria’s national day, so the number of doses of vaccine administered is very low – 243. 



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