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Bulgaria reports 1,424 new Covid-19 cases, positivity rate of 11%

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1,424 is the number of new Covid-19 cases out of 12,829 tests performed in the country in the past day, a positivity rate of 11%, Single Coronavirus Information Portal data show. 68% of the new infections are among the unvaccinated. The number of registered active cases is down by 1,221 to 190,033.

208 is the number of new hospital admissions, 78.4% of them are among the unvaccinated. The number of patients being treated in hospital has gone down in the past day to 2,019, though there is a slight increase in the number of Covid-19 patients being treated in intensive care units – 241.

21 patients have died in the past 24 hours, 18 of them were not vaccinated.

2,624 is the number of recoveries reported.

1,789 doses of vaccine have been administered in the past 24 hours. 



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