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Bulgaria reports 208 new Covid-19 cases, positivity rate exceeds 6%

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Bulgaria has reported 208 new cases of Covid-19 out of 3,143 tests performed in the country in the past day, a positivity rate of 6.61 %, Single Coronavirus Information Portal data show.

246 patients are being treated in hospital, 26 of them in intensive care. 36 is the number of new hospital admissions.

4 patients with confirmed Covid-19 have died in the past 24 hours, the number of recoveries reported is 1,120.

366 doses of vaccine have been administered in the past day. 2,060,929  is the number of people in the country with a completed vaccination cycle in the country, 762,060 have taken a booster shot. 



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