303 New Cases of COVID-19 Confirmed in Bulgaria

The Bulgarian healthcare authorities confirmed 303 new cases of COVID-19 in the country over the last 24 hours, based on 5,701 PCR tests, according to data posted on the national web portal for coronavirus information on Thursday morning. This brought the total number of COVID-19 cases in Bulgaria to 12,717, including 5,139 active ones.

The largest number of new cases were registered in the region of Blagoevgrad (97), followed by Varna (54), Plovdiv (45) and Sofia (28).

A hundred and ninety COVID-19 patients recovered from the disease over the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of recoveries to 7,154. A total of 872 patients are in hospital, 44 of them in intensive care wards.

Nine patients died over the last 24 hours.

A total of 252 physicians, 240 nurses, 114 orderlies, 12 paramedics and 99 other medical staff in Bulgaria have been infected with the disease so far.

Source: BTA