January 10 (BTA) - The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Bulgaria reached 1,018,851, after 30,170 tests identified 7,263 new infections on Wednesday, 74.6 per cent of which were of unvaccinated persons, according to data posted on https://coronavirus.bg/. The test positivity rate now stands at 24.07 per cent.

Sofia City Region tops the list of new cases with 1,533 positive tests, followed by Varna with 823 cases and Plovdiv with 689.

The active cases are 262,352. Currently, the hospitalized patients number 6,237, including 608 in intensive care. Of the 775 hospital admissions, 84.13 per cent were not vaccinated.

The infected medical staff have reached 22,012, with 151 new cases detected.

Another 6,745 COVID-19 patients have recovered over the last 24 hours, bringing the total to 722,347.

A hundred and eight fatalities were reported (87.96 per cent unvaccinated), and the death toll now adds up to 34,152.

With 7,552 new inoculations over the last 24 hours, 4,226,703 vaccine doses have been administered so far, and 2,010,818 people are fully vaccinated./NZ/