Podcast in English
Text size
Bulgarian National Radio © 2024 All Rights Reserved

Daily Covid-19 infections surge to 7,034

Photo: BGNES

7,034 is the number of newly registered Covid-19 infections out of 39,590 tests performed in the country in the past day, 1,331 up on the previous day. 74.6% of them are among the unvaccinated.

The coronavirus positivity rate is 17.7%, down by 1.4% from the previous day.

The number of active cases in the country has gone up by 3,879, reaching 142,472.

552 is the number of new hospital admissions in the past 24 hours, 82.6% of them are among the unvaccinated.

5,297 patients are being treated in hospital, 579 of them in intensive care.

84 Covid patients gave died in the past day, 80 of them were not vaccinated.

4,071 is the number of recoveries registered in the past day.

29,683 doses of vaccine were administered over the past 24 hours, 1,958,189 is the number of people in the country now with a completed vaccination cycle. 475,257 have had a booster shot. 



Последвайте ни и в Google News Showcase, за да научите най-важното от деня!
Listen to the daily news from Bulgaria presented in "Bulgaria Today" podcast, available in Spotify.

More from category

Ivan Demerdzhiev: We understand how important it is for Delyan Peevski to have a new chief prosecutor

The members of the Supreme Judicial Council have neither the legal nor the moral right to choose the next chief prosecutor, given that their mandates have long since expired, former caretaker interior minister Ivan Demerdzhiev told BNR. On..

published on 9/8/24 4:24 PM

Peevski's and Dogan's coalitions did not submit the documents requested by Central Electoral Commission

The two wings of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms party, which intend to participate in the early parliamentary elections on October 27 in coalitions, did not comply with the instructions of the Central Election Commission (CEC) to submit documents..

updated on 9/8/24 4:17 PM

Defense Minister: Reinstatement of mandatory service could be on the agenda if vacancies in the army are not filled

For now, we do not envisage and do not propose to the Bulgarian parliament to return the conscription military service, Caretaker Minister of Defense Atanas Zapryanov told BNR. He expressed the hope that with the increase in the salaries of the military..

published on 9/8/24 4:15 PM