13,5% of Covid-19 tests results in past day are positive

The number of coronavirus-related deaths in the past 24 hours in Bulgaria was record high, the Single Information Portal shows. 23 patients lost the battle with the disease, bringing the total number of deaths to 915. The newly registered cases are 587 out of 4,320 PCR tests performed. This is also a record high rate of 13.5 percent for 24 hours. There are 1221 infected patients in hospitals. 65 of them are in serious condition and are in intensive care. The total number of active cases has reached 8,099. Most of the newly infected are in the capital city - 173, followed by Plovdiv and Blagoevgrad. 128 people recovered during the the day.

High level of infection for a day is caused by late reporting

At this stage, there is no reason to tighten anti-coronavirus measures in this country. The strain continues to spread in clusters, not diffusely, Deputy Minister of Health Dr. Boyko Penkov has told BNT. So far, the health-care system is not overloaded. There are 8,400 beds for patients with Covid-19 in the country. Just over 1,200 of them are taken.The high number of infected and deceased people is due to a delay in reporting the results from two days, Penkov explained. 

Mortality among Covid-19 patients in Bulgarian hospitals is 11.47%

Mortality among patients with Covid-19 in Bulgarian hospitals has been 11.47% for the first 6 months of the pandemic, according to the analysis in the "Hospital Index" under a project of the Gallup agency, BTA reported. The patients were treated in 102 medical institutions. Most of them are treated in large state and district hospitals.There is no complete correlation of the death rate from the infection in hospitals for the past period with other countries. But similar data for Germany published in the medical journal "Lancet" in July showed that the mortality rate in 920 hospitals in Germany was 22 percent. And according to the official pandemic monitoring system in the United Kingdom, hospital mortality in England was around 24%.

Not a single person infected with Covid-19 in Bulgarian hotels

There is not a single case of coronavirus infection in a Bulgarian hotel, the Bulgarian Association of Hotel Executives has reported. According to the unified tourist information system, more than 3.8 million tourists spent nights in places for accommodation from January to September 2020, and since June 15 when the ban on organizing events was lifted, members of the association have held a total of over 800 events in hotels.The association points out that the lack of even a single outbreak of infection in a Bulgarian hotel is indicative of the serious attitude of hoteliers towards the risk and the effective measures they have taken for the safety of their guests, BTA reported.

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Compiled by: Gergana Mancheva