Total confirmed coronavirus cases in Bulgaria reaches 624

The total confirmed coronavirus cases in Bulgaria reached 624, the head of the national task force, Major-General, Prof .Dr. Mutafchiyski said at the daily briefing on April 10.

The medical staff who tested positive for the virus are 33.

A situation is being clarified with a patient admitted to Alexandrovska Hospital in Sofia in serious condition and after a few hours died after intubation. It is expected to see if his sample is positive. The clinical signs strongly resemble coronavirus infection, the general said.

230 of the patients diagnosed with Covid-19 are in hospitals, 33 of them are in intensive care. There is an intubated patient in the Military Medical Hospital, who was infected with coronavirus during chemotherapy. The man had a surgery two months ago because of colon cancer.

So far, 54 people who had been diagnosed with coronavirus have recovered.

24 persons died.