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3,471 new daily coronavirus infections, positivity rate at 14.78%

Major surge in number of new coronavirus infections and Covid-related deaths

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157 people with Covid-19 have died in the past day, 93% of them were unvaccinated, National Coronavirus Information Portal data show. On Monday the number of deaths was 40. The number of new infections registered over the past 24 hours is 3,471, out of more than 23,000 tests performed in the past day, 2,850 more than a day earlier. The positivity rate is 14.78%.

85% of the new infections are among the unvaccinated. 907 is the number of new hospitalizations, 91% of them unvaccinated. 5,505 patients are being treated in hospital, 472 of them in intensive care. The active number of Covid-19 cases is 51,858, the number of registered recoveries -1,862.

5,166 doses of vaccine were administered on Monday. 1,365,088 is the number of people now fully vaccinated in the country. 4,992 third doses of vaccine have so far been administered. 



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