site.btaCOVID-19 Update: 6,252 New Cases, Test Positivity Rate at 14.6%

January 5 (BTA) - The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Bulgaria reached 757,710, after 42,828 tests identified 6,252 new infections on Tuesday, 73.34 per cent of which were of unvaccinated persons, according to data posted on https://coronavirus.bg/. The test positivity rate now stands at 14.6 per cent.

Sofia City Region tops the list of new cases with 1,873 positive tests, followed by Plovdiv Region with 535 cases and Varna Region with 436.

The active cases are 111,467. Currently, the hospitalized patients number 4,477, including 468 in intensive care. Of the 887 hospital admissions, 82.75 per cent were not vaccinated.

The infected medical staff have reached 18,162.

Another 1,340 COVID-19 patients have recovered over the last 24 hours, bringing the total to 615,006.

A hundred and fifty-seven fatalities were reported (90.45 per cent unvaccinated), and the death toll now adds up to 31,237.

With 24,947 new inoculations over the last 24 hours, 3,736,566 vaccine doses have been administered so far, 1,921,662 people are fully vaccinated, and 300,958 have received a booster jab. 

At the start of the Council of Ministers' meeting on Wednesday, Prime Minister Kiril Petkov congratulated Health Minister Assena Serbezova on the higher vaccination rates Bulgaria has been registering since the start of the Government's programme for promoting anti-COVID innoculations among pensioners through economic incentives.

On Tuesday alone, the number of vaccinated Bulgarians grew by 24,747, and over 130,000 have gotten inoculated since the programme's launch. "Our initial goal was 300,000 people. We are already at one-third of this result, and it is just the first days of January," Petkov noted.