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Bulgaria reports 115 new Covid-19 infections, 2 deaths in past day

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115 is the number of new Covid-19 cases out of 3,096 tests performed in the country in the past day, 66 down on the previous day, Single Coronavirus Information Portal data show. The positivity rate is 3.7%a versus 4.1% on Tuesday. The number of active cases in the country has gone up by 54 in the past day, to 3,053.

26 is the number of new hospital admissions in the past 24 hours, 17 or 65.38% of them are not vaccinated. The number of patients being treated in hospital is 233, up by 2 up compared to the previous day, 26 of them are in intensive care.

Three people with established coronavirus infection have died in the past 24 hours, of them 2 were not vaccinated. 55 are reported as recovered.

110 doses of vaccine have been administered in the past day.



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