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Bulgaria reports 741 new Covid-19 infections, 8 deaths

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741 is the number of new Covid-19 cases out of 9,977 tests performed in the country in the past 24 hours, which is 399 down on the previous day. The positivity rate stands at 7.4%, Single Coronavirus Information Portal data show. The active cases are down by 5,616 to 147,908.  

138 is the number of new hospital admissions in the past day, 80% of them among the unvaccinated. 937 patients are being treated in hospital, 97 of them in intensive care.

Eight patients with established coronavirus infection have died in the past day, 6 of them were not vaccinated. The number of recoveries reported is 5,349.

1,337 doses of vaccine were administered on Wednesday. 



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