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Bulgaria reports 113 new coronavirus infections in past day

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Over the past 24 hours, 113 cases of coronavirus have been established in Bulgaria out of 2,635 tests, according to the data of the Unified Information Portal. 4% of the samples came back positive. 47% of the newly infected persons have not been vaccinated. 

The highest number of new cases is in Sofia - 49, in Varna - 12, and in Pernik - 8. 
There are 259 patients in hospital as 30 of them are in intensive care units. 45% of the newly admitted 20 patients are not vaccinated. One person died - he was not immunized, while 57 recovered. 

Active cases number 3,016. 

Yesterday, 80 doses of vaccines against coronavirus were administered. There are 2,076,335 people with completed immunization.



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