All 28 districts in Bulgaria are “red zones” for Covid-19

All 28 districts in Bulgaria are designated as “red zones” for Covid-19. There is no region in which the number of cases is less than 150 per 100,0000 people. In Sofia and Bourgas, the number of infected is approaching 900 people per 100,000 population.

According to Johns Hopkins University, Bulgaria has the 10th highest Covid-19 death rate per 100,000 population in the world, behind San Marino, the Czech Republic, Belgium, Montenegro, Slovenia, Great Britain, Hungary, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Italy.

Our country ranks 14th - with 4% mortality in confirmed cases of COVID-19.

Bulgaria is in 14th place in the world, with 4% mortality in confirmed cases - counted by case-fatality rate – the number of deaths divided by the number of confirmed cases.

The increase in the number of infections leads to increased pressure on the health care system. For fifth day in a row, the number of Covid-19 hospitalisations is more than 8,000 people, the trend is upward.

Many hospitals are running out of beds.

The largest hospital in Blagoevgrad is not admitting emergency patients. The surgery ward has been turned into Covid-19 zone.

In Gotse Delchev, all beds have been full. In Varna, the hospitals are on the edge and are considering to increase the number of beds for Covid-19 patients.

The next 10 days will be extremely difficult if this growth of hospital admissions continues, according to the local task force. Hospitals will find it difficult to survive, so an option is being considered to hospitalize only the most severe cases.

"At least those who do not need hospital treatment so urgently should not be admitted. Those who feel improvement on the third day should be discharged, as the load will be palpable," Stoyan Pasev said.

94% of the available beds in Bourgas are occupied. Nearly a third of all Covid-19 hospitalisations are in the capital. The unoccupied beds in Tokuda Hospital are a few and it has 350 in total. In ISUL hospital, today there was only one available bed in the intensive care, in "St. Ivan Rilski" intensive care unit, there was none - all 7 they have are occupied. The situation in "Pirogov" emergency hospital, Military Academy and "St. Anna" is worrying.

In Yambol the bed occupancy reaches 98%.

According to the Minister of Health, the hospital system is coping with the workload.

"The system withstands this pressure and we will make the whole organization to endure," said Health Minister Kostadin Angelov.

The 14-day morbidity in the country exceeded 640 people per 100,000.