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No Covid-related deaths reported in past day, positivity rate at 5.7%

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156 is the number of new Covid-19 cases out of 2,724 tests performed in the country in the past 24 hours, which is 283 down on the previous day. The positivity rate stands at 5.7%, Single Coronavirus Information Portal data show. The number of active cases has gone up by 41 to 132,955.

11 is the number of new hospital admissions in the past 24 hours. The number of coronavirus patients being treated in hospital is down by 10 to 752, of them 78 in intensive care units. The number of recoveries reported in the past day is 115.

No Covid-related deaths have been reported in the past day. The death toll since the start of the coronavirus pandemic in Bulgaria is 36,965.

100 doses of vaccine were administered on Friday, which was a non-work day.



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