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Over 200 Covid-19 deaths for a day

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3,122 new coronavirus cases have been registered for a day after 17,402 tests, data from the Single Coronavirus Information Portal show. 18% of the samples tested returned positive result. The highest number of newly infected people is in Sofia - 758, followed by Plovdiv - 314, Varna – 233, and Stara Zagora - 195. Currently there are 9,970 patients in hospital and 776 people are in intensive care wards. 201 people passed away and with them the death toll since the beginning of the epidemic has reached 14,619. The number of recoveries for a day reached 3,098.

51 medics were diagnosed with Covid-19 and with them the total number reached 12,588. There are 71,140 active cases. 7,330 vaccine doses were administered in the past 24 hours. The total number of administered vaccines has reached 579,992 and 114,644 people have been vaccinated with both doses.



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