SOFIA, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- The Bulgarian Health Ministry on Friday morning reported a daily record high of 6,728 COVID-19 recoveries in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of recoveries to 150,370.

The previous daily record of 4,290 recoveries was reported on Dec. 12.

Meanwhile, the number of confirmed infections has reached 210,951, an increase of 535 over the past 24 hours, and the COVID-19 death toll rose by 47 to 8,396, the ministry said.

The ministry also said that the number of active COVID-19 cases in the country fell to 52,185. It is the lowest figure since Nov. 10.

It said that 3,631 patients are currently hospitalized, with 343 in intensive care, the lowest numbers since Nov. 7 and Nov. 19 in 2020, respectively.

According to the ministry, there are 648 Bulgarians that have received coronavirus vaccines in the last 24 hours, raising the total number of vaccinations in the country to 17,686.

At a press conference on Thursday, Health Minister Kostadin Angelov said his country is seeing a downward trend in the spread of COVID-19 as a result of the tightening of social restrictions imposed since the end of November 2020.

According to information released by the World Health Organization on Tuesday, 236 candidate vaccines are still being developed worldwide -- 63 of them in clinical trials -- in countries including Germany, China, Russia, Britain and the United States. Enditem

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