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Bulgaria reports 185 new Covid-19 cases, 4 deaths in past day

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185 new cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed in Bulgaria in the past 24 hours out of 3,125 tests performed. The positivity rate stands at 6%, Single Coronavirus Information Portal data show. 62% of the new Covid-19 cases are among the unvaccinated.

The highest number of new cases was registered in Sofia-48, followed by Plovdiv-23 and Varna-17.

The number of active cases in the country amount to 4,388.The number of new hospital admissions in the past day is 25, of them 80% are not vaccinated. 

351 patients being treated in hospital, as 40 of them are in intensive care units. 4 Covid-related deaths have been registered in the past 24 hours. 291 people have been reported cured.

420 vaccine doses were administered on Friday. 2,074,301 is the number of people with a completed vaccination cycle.


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