June 20 (BTA) - The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in
 Bulgaria reached 421,005, after 8,438 tests identified 41 new
infections on Friday, according to data posted on
https://coronavirus.bg/. The test positivity rate now stands at
0.49 per cent.

Sofia City Region tops the list of new cases with 15 positive
tests, followed by Plovdiv Region with 7 cases and Varna Region
with 6.

The active cases are 10,207. Currently, the hospitalized
patients number 1,746, including 207 in intensive care.

The infected medical staff have reached 13,437, with no new
cases detected since Thursday.

Another 37 COVID-19 patients have recovered over the last 24
hours, bringing the total to 392,809.

Two fatalities were reported, and the death toll now adds up to
17,989.

With 3,857 new inoculations over the last 24 hours, 1,657,042
persons in aggregate have received a coronavirus vaccination so
far, including 747,471 who are fully vaccinated.

* * *

Bulgaria is already marked green on the COVID-19 situation map
in the EU, the Bulgarian Health Ministry said in a press release
 on Sunday.

The weekly combined indicator map is published by the European
Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), based on
agreed criteria including the 14-day cumulative incidence rate,
testing rate and testing positivity rates. An area that is
marked green means that the 4-day notification rate is less than
 50 and the test positivity rate is less than 4 per cent, or the
 14-day notification rate is less than 75 and the test
positivity rate less than 1 per cent.

"The credit goes above all to the people who have already
received a vaccination and thus raise a barrier to the spread of
 the virus and, on the other hand, to hospital, off-hospital and
 emergency medical workers and the administration staff directly
 engaged in combating COVID-19," Health Minister Stoycho
Katsarov said. RY/LG

//