Number of Covid-19 dark red zones in Bulgaria continues to decrease
The number of districts in Bulgaria classified as Covid-19 dark red zones – meaning a morbidity rate of 500 or more out of 100 000 population on a 14-day basis – is continuing to decrease, although well more than half of the country’s 28 districts remain in that category.
As of March 1, 20 out of 28 districts in Bulgaria are Covid-19 dark red zones.
Six are red zones, meaning a morbidity rate from 250 to 499.9 per 100 000 population on a 14-day basis: Vidin, Kyustendil, Pazardzhik, Razgrad, Smolyan and Haskovo.
The district of Blagoevgrad has joined Kurdzhali in being classified as a yellow zone, meaning a morbidity rate between 100 and 249.9 per 100 000 population.
The district with the highest Covid-19 morbidity rate is Varna, at 1560.65 per 100 000 population.
In Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia, the morbidity rate is 803.8 per 100 000 population.
Bulgaria’s national Covid-19 morbidity rate as of March 1 is 698.69 per 100 000 population on a 14-day basis,down from 747.42 on February 28 and down from 1754.65 on February 1.
(Illustration, with the dark red zones coloured in brown: National Centre for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases)
For the rest of The Sofia Globe’s continuing coverage of the Covid-19 situation in Bulgaria, please click here.
The Sofia Globe’s coverage of the Covid-19 situation in Bulgaria is supported by the Embassies of Switzerland and Finland.
Please support independent journalism by clicking on the orange button below. For as little as three euro a month or the equivalent in other currencies, you can support The Sofia Globe via patreon.com and get access to exclusive subscriber-only content:
