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– Within days we will leave the red zone in the distribution map of COVID-19
– According to the latest NSI data, the “hidden” mortality is also melting
The infection in our country is melting at a rapid pace and a calm summer with low levels of coronavirus is looming.
For the sixth week in a row, the number of infected people in Bulgaria is decreasing. An average of 512 new patients per day were registered – 34% less.
For the past, there has been a serious decline in casualties. They were average 42 per day – by 40% down.
With the abatement of the epidemic in our country, the “hidden” mortality began to decrease significantly, which appears in the NSI data for the dead in the country by weeks.
Between May 3rd and 9th, there were about 370 victims. (See table.)
In 2020, during the peak in November and December, there were thousands of deaths above the usual for Bulgaria deaths outside the statistics for the victims of the virus. As the number of registered deaths from the infection increases, so do the “additional” deaths. For the last two months of 2020, these cases exceed 10,000.
Earlier this year, the “hidden” mortality disappeared, but from the second week of March it reappeared in parallel with the third wave. Since then, there have been about 5,500 cases.
“Hidden” mortality occurred at victim levels above 70 per day. As it is lower than these levels from the beginning of May and continues to decrease, it is expected to disappear completely by the end of May.
Of the 78,000 coronavirus tests, 4.6% were positive.
On Tuesday, 4,592 people were hospitalized (-18%) and 490 (-12%) in intensive care.
As of May 18, the incidence was 131 on a two-week basis per 100,000. A week earlier, there were 174. (See table.) In a few days we will pass the threshold of 120 cases and we will leave the red zone in the map of the infection. This could lead Britain and other European countries to remove us from their lists of countries dangerous to travel. The possible lifting of the quarantine for arrivals from Bulgaria will return some of the tourists from the EU and Russia on our Black Sea coast in the summer.
The active cases are already 33 thousand compared to 43 thousand only a week earlier.
In the ranking, equating the victims to the population, we are in fourteenth place in the world. (See table.)
In Europe, for another week, the epidemic is declining rapidly everywhere. There is a 21% drop in those infected and a 15% drop in casualties.
The first 6 places in the black ranking are already occupied by South American countries. There are over 10 victims per million population in Uruguay alone.
The wave of COVID-19 that has hit India since early April continues. There are registered 48% of those infected and 34% of the world’s victims during the week. An average of 4,100 people died a day, a record in the history of the epidemic.
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