Bulgaria: Various districts of Bulgaria have been put under the red zones of the COVID-19 pandemic, which stated that the morbidity rate between 250 and 499.9 per 100,000 population on a 14-day basis has hiked in the past day from five to eight. The announcement was made by the figures posted on July 24 by the unified information portal.
The new entries in the red zones category are the disctricts with the name Gabrovo with the morbidity rate (253.38) and the Sofia district. On the other hand, the other districts are Sofia city with a rate (of 253.85) and Silistra (259.37).
They join the districts of Varna (the highest, at 390.51), Sofia city (366.67), Bourgas (339.12), Stara Zagora (274.47) and Pernik (281.3).
In the past day, the district of Veliko Turnovo, which had been the only district in Bulgaria classified as a green zone, has crossed the threshold to be classified as a yellow zone, with a 14-day morbidity rate of 100.14 per 100 000 population on a 14-day basis.
Veliko Turnovo is now one of 20 yellow zone districts in Bulgaria.
As of the July 24 update, Bulgaria’s national Covid-19 morbidity rate is 245.06 per 100 000 population on a 14-day basis, compared with 238.4 as of the July 23 update. When this month began, the July 1 report said that Bulgaria’s Covid-19 morbidity rate was 65.54 per 100 000 population on a 14-day basis.
The July 24 report said that in the past day, of 2841 tests for Covid-19 done in Bulgaria, 822 – about 28.93 per cent – proved positive.