site.btaCOVID-19 Update: 10,160 New Cases, Test Positivity Rate at 24.5%
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COVID-19 Update:
10,160 New Cases,
Test Positivity Rate at 24.5%
Sofia, January 20 (BTA) - The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Bulgaria reached 851,945, after 41,433 tests identified 10,160 new infections on Wednesday, 77.5 per cent of which were of unvaccinated persons, according to data posted on https://coronavirus.bg/. The test positivity rate now stands at 24.5 per cent.
Sofia City tops the list of new cases with 3,049 positive tests, followed by Plovdiv Region with 979 cases and Blagoevgrad Region with 695.
The active cases are 179,301. Currently, the hospitalized patients number 5,208, including 542 in intensive care. Of the 572 hospital admissions, 83 per cent were not vaccinated.
The infected medical staff have reached 19,209.
Another 861 COVID-19 patients have recovered over the last 24 hours, bringing the total to 640,213.
Ninety-three fatalities were reported (94.6 per cent unvaccinated), and the death toll now adds up to 32,431.
With 19,321 new inoculations over the last 24 hours, 4,058,974 vaccine doses have been administered so far, 1,970,165 people are fully vaccinated, and 541,337 have received a booster jab.
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Prime Minister Kiril Petkov said that the Omicron variant of the coronavirus has spread widely but accounts for a very small portion of COVID-19 patients in intensive care. According to Petkov, the number of occupied intensive care beds matters more than the number of COVID-19 cases, and this is reflected in the new National Operative Plan for Dealing with COVID-19. "Many regions should have been put under lockdown according to the old plan, but they are not," he noted.
"We are monitoring the critical factors in the healthcare system, not the figures which show the general disease incidence," the Prime Minister explained. "This makes it possible to respond and to plan future steps."
"The good news is that the measures are becoming very mild as a result of this critical approach, and this will not change," Petkov said. MT/DD/VE
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VE1537.104
104 COVID-19 - DAILY - UPDATE - amplified 1
COVID-19 Update:
10,160 New Cases,
Test Positivity Rate at 24.5%
Sofia, January 20 (BTA) - The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Bulgaria reached 851,945, after 41,433 tests identified 10,160 new infections on Wednesday, 77.5 per cent of which were of unvaccinated persons, according to data posted on https://coronavirus.bg/. The test positivity rate now stands at 24.5 per cent.
Sofia City tops the list of new cases with 3,049 positive tests, followed by Plovdiv Region with 979 cases and Blagoevgrad Region with 695.
The active cases are 179,301. Currently, the hospitalized patients number 5,208, including 542 in intensive care. Of the 572 hospital admissions, 83 per cent were not vaccinated.
The infected medical staff have reached 19,209.
Another 861 COVID-19 patients have recovered over the last 24 hours, bringing the total to 640,213.
Ninety-three fatalities were reported (94.6 per cent unvaccinated), and the death toll now adds up to 32,431.
With 19,321 new inoculations over the last 24 hours, 4,058,974 vaccine doses have been administered so far, 1,970,165 people are fully vaccinated, and 541,337 have received a booster jab.
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Prime Minister Kiril Petkov said that the Omicron variant of the coronavirus has spread widely but accounts for a very small portion of COVID-19 patients in intensive care. According to Petkov, the number of occupied intensive care beds matters more than the number of COVID-19 cases, and this is reflected in the new National Operative Plan for Dealing with COVID-19. "Many regions should have been put under lockdown according to the old plan, but they are not," he noted.
"We are monitoring the critical factors in the healthcare system, not the figures which show the general disease incidence," the Prime Minister explained. "This makes it possible to respond and to plan future steps."
"The good news is that the measures are becoming very mild as a result of this critical approach, and this will not change," Petkov said. MT/DD/VE
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