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Bulgaria reports 609 new Covid-19 infections, 11 deaths

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609 is the number of new Covid-19 cases, or 60 down on the previous day, out of 8,739 tests performed in the country in the past 24 hours, a positivity rate of 7%, Single Coronavirus Information Portal data show. Two-thirds of the new infections are among the unvaccinated.

The number of active cases in the country is down by 1,872 to 156,959.

85 is the number of new hospital admissions, over 81% of them are among the unvaccinated. The number of patients being treated in hospital is down to 938, of them 116 in intensive care.

11 patients have died in the past day, 7 of them were not vaccinated. 2,470 is the number of recoveries reported in the past 24 hours.

1,348 doses of vaccine have been administered in the country on Wednesday. 



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