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Bulgaria reports slight increase in number of Covid-19 cases

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199 is the number of new Covid-19 cases out of 3,086 tests performed in the country in the past day, a slight increases compared to the previous day. The positivity rate is 6.4%, Single Coronavirus Information Portal data show.

362 patients are being treated in hospital, 34 of them in intensive care. 60 is the number of new hospital admissions.

Four patients have died in the past day, the number of recoveries reported is 130.

470 doses of vaccine have been administered in Bulgaria over the past 24 hours. 2,074,460 is the number of people with a completed vaccination cycle, 936,300 have taken a booster shot, 63,731 an adapted booster shot.

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