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Over 1.8 million people in the country are double-vaccinated

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985 is the number of newly registered coronavirus cases over the past 24 hours out of 19,316 performed in the country, a positivity rate of 5.1%, Single Coronavirus Information Portal data show. 80% of the new infections are among the unvaccinated. Compared to the previous day the number of new infections has dropped by 1,304, but data on Sunday are usually incomplete.

The number of active Covid-19 cases has dropped to 100,537.

203 is the number of new hospital admissions, 87% of them among the unvaccinated.

6,082 coronavirus patients are being treated in hospital, 677 of them in intensive care.

36 have died in the past day, 31 of them are unvaccinated. 2,871 coronavirus patients have been reported as recovered.

6,067 vaccines were administered on Saturday. 1,800,792 is the number of people in the country who are now double-vaccinated,125,331 have had a booster dose. 



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