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Bulgaria reports 8 Covid-related deaths in past day

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513 is the number of new Covid-19 infections out of 5,719 tests performed over the past 24 hours, 333 down compared to a day earlier. The positivity rate stands at 9% versus 11.2% on Tuesday, Single Coronavirus Information Portal data show.

The number of active cases in the country has gone down by 345 to 9,959.

79 is the number of new hospital admissions in the past day, 50 of them or over 63% are not vaccinated. The number of patients currently being treated in hospital is down by 36 to 600, of them 57 are in intensive care.

8 Covid-related deaths have been registered in the past day, 6 were not vaccinated. The number of recoveries reported is 850.

823 doses of vaccine have been administered in the past 24 hours.

37,888 is the number of coronavirus-related deaths since the start of the pandemic, the number of infections over the entire period is 1,279,595, the death rate - 2.96%. 



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