According to the unified information portal on January 30, Sunday, the country once again reported the highest number of Covid-19 cases in a week. According to the portal, the country registered 61,831 Covid-19 new cases in the past week, taking the total number of confirmed cases to 939,212.
The previous record was registered last week, ending on January 23, around 59,152. And before this, 39,528 cases were reported during the week ending on January 16.
During the same time, 485 people lost their lives due to the deadly virus; of these, 33 died on the last day. So far, the total number of deaths reported in the country are 33,121.
So far, Bulgaria has around 238,955 active cases; in the past week, 37,977 active cases were added to the tally.
Till now, around 5,684 people have been admitted to the hospital due to Covid-19; 468 were admitted in the last week. Of these, 513 patients are under intensive care.
As here, 4,155,619 people have taken the doses of vaccines against Covid-19 in Bulgaria; out of these, 60,198 received the jab in the last week and 3468 received it in the past 24 hours. As many as 1,992,848 Bulgarian has taken complete vaccination, and 605,792 have taken the booster dose.
As of January 30, Bulgaria’s national Covid-19 morbidity rate is 1749.18 per 100,000 population on a 14-day basis, according to the unified information site, up from 1727.7 on January 29 and 1426.72 on January 23.
As of January 30, “all” Bulgarian districts have been categorized as the dark red zones, which means that all districts of the country have a morbidity rate of 500 or more per 100,000 population.
Despite such a surge in the Covid-19 cases, Bulgaria has the lowest vaccination rate among the nations in the European Union, according to the statics by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control’s vaccine tracker.