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Bulgaria reports 4% new daily infections with Covid-19

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Bulgaria has registered a total of 241 new cases of coronavirus in the country with 5,853 tests performed. 4.12% of the samples returned positive, data in the Unified Information Portal shows. The highest number of new infections is recorded in Sofia-city - 66. The districts of Varna follow with 30 and Veliko Tarnovo with 21 cases.
There are currently 44,881 active cases in the country. A total of 5,912 patients are in hospital with 562 of them in intensive care units. 
27 people with established Covid-19 infection died in the past day. 207 people recovered in the last 24 hours.
A total of 5,645 vaccines were administered in the past day. 
The doses administered in the country are already 938,064. The total number of persons who received both doses is 291,996.



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