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Bulgaria registers 5% daily growth in new Covid-19 infections

published on 2/16/22 9:08 AM

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Bulgaria has registered 6,589 new coronavirus infections in the past day. More than ¾ of the newly infected citizens have not been vaccinated. 22.7% of the 28,986 tests performed returned a positive result, show data of the National Coronavirus Information Portal.

The number of actively registered patients increased by 646 to 257,413. A total of 622 infected patients were admitted to hospitals. 85% of them are not vaccinated. The number of hospitalized patients decreased by 233 to 5,721. 601 of the hospitalized patients were in intensive care.

During the day, 95 patients with established Covid died. 84 of the dead were not vaccinated. 5848 were cured.

5,537 vaccines were administered on Tuesday. There are now 2,030,626 Bulgarian citizens with a completed immunization cycle. Almost 660,000 people have received a booster dose.

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