site.btaCOVID-19 Update: 500 New Cases, Test Positivity Rate at 2.68%

August 6 (BTA) - The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Bulgaria reached 426,932, after 9,865 tests identified 500 new infections on Thursday, according to data posted Friday on the national coronavirus information platform at https://coronavirus.bg/. The test positivity rate now stands at 2.68 per cent.

The capital Sofia tops the list of new cases with 119 positive tests.

The active cases are 9,921. Currently, the hospitalized patients number 935, including 89 in intensive care.

Fourteen fatalities are reported, and the death toll now adds up to 18,243.

With 12,520 new inoculations over the last 24 hours, 2,076,157 persons in aggregate have received a coronavirus vaccination so far, including 1,027,377 who are fully vaccinated. /РИ/

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