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Bulgaria reports more than 100 Covid-related deaths in past day

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7,263 new cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed in Bulgaria in the past 24 hours out of 30,170 tests performed. 75% of the new cases are among the unvaccinated. 24% of the tests have returned positive result, Single Coronavirus Information Portal data indicate.

The weekly Covid-19 morbidity rate fell to 674 cases per 100,000 people, whereas two weeks earlier morbidity rate reached 1,521 new cases per 100,000 people.

262,352 is the number of active cases. 775 patients have been admitted to hospital in the past day. More than 84% of the new hospitalizations are among the unvaccinated. 6,237 patients are being treated in hospital, as 608 of them are in intensive care units.

108 people with established coronavirus infection have died in the past day. 95 of them were not immunized. 6,745 have been reported cured.

7,552 vaccines were administered in Bulgaria on Wednesday. 2,020,190 is the number of people with a completed vaccination cycle.




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