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Coronavirus positivity rate continues below 1%

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110 is the number of newly registered coronavirus cases out of 13,668 tests performed in the country in the past 24 hours, a positivity rate of 0.8%, Single Coronavirus Information Portal data show.

Once again the highest number of new infections has been registered in the city of Sofia – 41, followed by the regions of Plovdiv with 10 and Blagoevgrad with 9. No new Covid-19 cases have been reported in several regions - Burgas, Lovech, Razgrad, Silistra, Sofia and Stara Zagora. The number of active cases is 10,427.

1,764 coronavirus patients are being treated in hospital, 215 of them in intensive care. 23 have died in the past 24 hours, 417 have recovered from Covid-19.

18,233doses of vaccine were administered on Thursday, almost 600 up on the previous day. A total of 1,637,956 vaccines have been administered in the country so far, 735,898 people are now fully vaccinated.



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