Podcast in English
Text size
Bulgarian National Radio © 2024 All Rights Reserved

Number of coronavirus-related deaths in Bulgaria stays high

Photo: EPA/BGNES

There were 1,429 new Covid cases registered in the country in the past day, 207 down on the previous day. Over 2/3 of the newly infected are non-vaccinated citizens. 21.8% of 6,541 tests were positive. The same indicator stood at 21.5% on Wednesday, the portal coronavirus.bg shows.

Number of registered patients decreased by 2,282 to 22,707. There were 183 hospital admissions as 140 of the patients are non-vaccinated citizens. The number of hospitalized people increased by 20 to 1,084. There are 55 patients in intensive care.

Nine people with Covid died and all of them had not been immunized. The number of recoveries reached 3,702. On Wednesday, 2,898 vaccines were administered. There are 2,066,347 Bulgarians with completed immunization.




Последвайте ни и в Google News Showcase, за да научите най-важното от деня!
Listen to the daily news from Bulgaria presented in "Bulgaria Today" podcast, available in Spotify.

More from category

Ylva Johansson

Bulgaria and Romania update cross-border police cooperation agreement

European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson and Romanian Deputy PM and Minister of Interior Cătălin Marian Predoiu are arriving today on a working visit to Bulgaria. The visit comes at the invitation of the Minister of..

published on 4/18/24 8:00 AM

We celebrate World Amateur Radio Day

On April 18, we mark World Amateur Radio Day. On this date in 1925, the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) was founded. In Bulgaria, the foundations of the organized amateur radio movement were laid in 1926, when 38 people of..

published on 4/18/24 7:40 AM

Yellow code for significant precipitation in six regions of eastern Bulgaria

On Thursday , the lowest temperatures in the country will be between 5 and 10°C; in Sofia – about 5°C. It will be cloudy with rainfalls in the morning mainly in eastern Bulgaria. The weather remains windy, with moderate to strong..

published on 4/17/24 6:45 PM