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Covid-19 positivity rate at 25%

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417 is the number of new Covid-19 cases out of 1,666 tests performed in the country in the past 24 hours, a positivity rate of 25%, as against 24.8% on the previous day. More than two-thirds of the new infections are among the unvaccinated, Single Coronavirus Information Portal data show.

The number of active cases is up by 829 to 12,122. The number of new hospital admissions is 24, of them 21 or 87.5% are not vaccinated. The number of patients being treated in hospital is up by 16 to 597, of them 32 in intensive care.  

The number of Covid-related deaths in the past day is 3, none of them were vaccinated. 82 are reported as recovered.

101 doses of vaccine were administered on Sunday. 



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