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PHOTO: Yordan Simeonov
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According to the latest NSI data, 3920 Bulgarians died during the week of March 29 – April 4, twice as many as in previous years. The hidden mortality from them is almost 1000 people
The day after the children returned to school, the decline in morbidity in Bulgaria was confirmed by statistics on a weekly basis. An average of 2608 cases were registered per day for the period – 23% less than the previous week. Victims fell by 5%.
The mortality rate is 119 people on average per day, or 17 per million population. On Tuesday, 201 victims were reported, which is the fourth highest number since the beginning of the epidemic in our country. But it is also due to accumulation – unpaid cases from the weekend are added on the first working day and are included in the statistics for Tuesday.
The declining number of new infections is also expected to lead to a more noticeable drop in mortality this week.
Of the 99,000 tests for COVID, 18% were positive. 9,970 people were hospitalized on Tuesday (-4%) and 776 in intensive care units (+ 6%).
605 are sick on a two-week basis per 100 thousand population as of April 13. There is also a more significant decline here – a week earlier there were 707. (See table.)
The phenomenon of “hidden” mortality from the epidemic appears on an even larger scale in the latest NSI data from Tuesday for the dead in the country by weeks.
In 2020, during the peak in November and December, thousands of deaths appeared above the usual for Bulgaria deaths outside the statistics for the victims of the virus. And now, with the increase in the number of registered deaths from the infection, the “additional” deaths are increasing, as the tendency is to exceed them more than 2 times.
For the last two months of 2020, these cases exceed 10,000.
Earlier this year, this “hidden” mortality disappeared, but from the second week of March it reappears in parallel with the third wave. For the period March 29 – April 4 there are nearly 1000 cases.
In the ranking, equating the victims to the size of the population, we are in fourth place in the world. (See table.) Before us are Hungary and Bosnia and Herzegovina and Northern Macedonia.
There is a serious increase in the number of patients and deaths from coronavirus worldwide – by 16% per week. This is partly due to the end of summer and the onset of the flu season in South America. 7 countries from this continent are on the black list, with the most victims in Brazil and Uruguay.
Seven Balkan countries are also on the list, but only in Croatia. In terms of total mortality from COVID per capita since the beginning of the pandemic, Bulgaria continues to be in 7th place in the world with 2116 victims per 1 million population.
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