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Bulgaria reports 10 deaths, coronavirus positivity rate is rising

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1,777 is the number of new Covid-19 cases confirmed out of 6,630 tests performed in the country in the past 24 hours, a positivity rate of 27%, Single Coronavirus Information Portal data show. 64% of the new infections are among the unvaccinated.

The highest number of new infections is in Sofia - 448, in Varna – 172, and in Plovdiv – 149. 

876 patients are being treated in hospital, 47of them in intensive care. 76% of the 152 people admitted to hospital in the past day are not vaccinated.

10 is the number of Covid-related deaths in the past day, 80% of them were not vaccinated. 742 is the number of recoveries reported. The number of active cases has gone up to 17,424.

3,575 doses of vaccine against coronavirus have been administered in the past day. 2,063,802 people in the country have competed their vaccination cycle, 29,185 of them have taken a second booster shot. 



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