Bulgaria’s COVID-19 death toll has risen to 15,100 after 121 new deaths were reported in the last 24 hours, official data showed Saturday.
Meanwhile, the number of confirmed infections rose by 2,126 to 384,887, according to the country’s COVID-19 information portal.
During the same period, 3,642 people recovered from the disease, raising the country’s total recoveries to 304,033.
The current numbers of COVID-19 hospitalizations and intensive-care patients stood at 9,195 and 801, respectively.
Additionally, 13,755 doses of coronavirus vaccines were administered in Bulgaria in the past 24 hours, taking the total number to 634,129.
Bulgaria has the highest ratio between confirmed deaths and confirmed cases of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in the European Union (EU) — 3.91 percent, according to the latest data collated by the University of Oxford-based Our World in Data.
At the same time, cumulative COVID-19 vaccine doses administered per 100 people in the country are 8.93, ranking it last in the EU, according to Our World in Data.
