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Bulgaria reports 675 new cases of Covid-19

Bulgaria's Minister of Health Kostadin Angelov
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675 new cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed in Bulgaria in the past 24 hours out of 2,151 PCR tests performed, data of the Single Information Portal show. 31% of all PCR tests have returned positive. 603 people have recovered and 33 have died in the past 24 hours. The number of active cases reached 49,087. A total of 3,822 patients are receiving treatment in hospitals, 272 of whom are in intensive care wards.

The fourteen-day morbidity in Bulgaria has exceeded 300 Covid-19 cases per 100,000 people, this country’s Minister of Health Professor Kostadin Angelov said at a briefing, BTA reports. General Practitioners and polyclinics will also make Covid-19 diagnostics. Covid-19 zones will be set up in polyclinics in Bulgaria’s capital Sofia and other big cities where a physician, a nurse and a laboratory assistant are to make diagnostics until the end of the year. Patients will be able to undergo medical examination, Covid-19 testing and X-ray examination. The cabinet will finance these activities with EUR 40 million, Minister Angelov said.




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