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Bulgaria reports 121 new Covid-19 infections in past day, no deaths

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121 is the number of new Covid-19 infections out of 1,201 tests performed in the country on Sunday, 59 down from the previous day, 67% of the new infections are among the unvaccinated. The positivity rate stands at 10%, versus 14% on the previous day, Single Coronavirus Information Portal data show.

The number of active cases has gone up by 98 to 10,155. The number of new hospital admissions over the past 24 hours is 9, of them 6 are not vaccinated. 734 patients are being treated in hospital, 59 of them are in intensive care.

No Covid-related deaths have been registered in the past day, the number of recoveries reported is 23.

7 doses of vaccine have been administered on Sunday.



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