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3,839 newly registered coronavirus cases, or 28% of all PCR tests performed

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3,839  is the number of newly confirmed Covid-19 cases, out of 13,849 PCR tests conducted in Bulgaria over the past 24 hours, data of the Single Coronavirus Information Portal show.

This means that 28% of all tests performed have returned positive. The highest number of newly registered infections is in Sofia – 1,435, Plovdiv – 382 and in Blagoevgrad – 237.

58 have died in the past 24 hours, 727 have recovered, 3,563 patients with coronavirus are being treated in hospital, 257 of them in intensive care. 121 is the number of infections among medical staff in the past 24 hours. 



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