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New daily coronavirus cases fall below 100

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A total of 89 new coronavirus cases have been registered for a day after 6,333 tests, data of the Single Coronavirus Information Portal show.

Just over 1% of the tests returned positive result. Most of the newly infected are in Sofia - 17, followed by Plovdiv - 13 and Varna - 12. No new cases were registered in the districts of Vidin, Vratsa, Dobrich, Kyustendil, Kardzhali and Silistra in the past day. 2,619 patients are in hospital as 293 of them are in intensive care wards. Three people passed away and 137 recovered. The active cases are 15,545.

Yesterday, nearly 6,000 citizens were vaccinated and their total number is now close to 1.5 million. More than 600,000 people have already received their second vaccine dose.



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