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Bulgaria reports 838 new infections in past day

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During the last 24 hours, Bulgaria has registered 838 new cases of coronavirus from 15,453 tests performed, according to data from the Unified Information Portal. 5.4% of the tests returned a positive result. 78.5% of newly infected persons have not been vaccinated. The highest number of new cases is in Sofia - 293, in Varna - 74, and in Plovdiv - 52. 

There are currently 4,073 patients in hospital - 456 of them in intensive care units. Almost 86% of new 307 hospitalized patients have not been vaccinated. 
46 people died in the past day as over 91% of them were not immunized. 
The active cases number 98,339. 
Yesterday 1,623 doses of coronavirus vaccines were administered. 
1,897,946 people have completed immunization. 251,961 have also received a booster dose.



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