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Bulgaria reports record-high number of coronavirus cases in past day

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7,062 new cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed in Bulgaria in the past day out of 37,952 tests performed, data of the portal coronavirus.bg indicate. 18% of the tests have returned positive result. 74% of the new cases of Covicd-19 are among the unvaccinated.

 The Omicron variant accounts for 10.3% of the positive Covid-19 samples. The number of active cases increased with more than 6,000 to 140,224. 627 Covid-19 patients have been admitted to hospital in the past day. 83.6% of the new hospitalizations are among the unvaccinated. 5,240 patients are being treated in hospital, as 580 of them are in intensive care units.

89 people with established coronavirus infection have died in the past day. 82 of them were not immunized. 1,323 people have been reported cured.

31,986 vaccines were administered on Tuesday, including 24,000 booster shots. 1,950,188 people have already completed the immunization cycle. 429,266 have had a booster shot.




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