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COVID-19 in Bulgaria and the World 1/1 5/2/2020 Duplicate of Коронавирус В България Numbers of Infected, Recovered and Deaths from COVID-19 by Data in Bulgaria 1600 5/2/2020 Page 4 COVID-19 in Bulgaria and the world 1/1 5/2/2020 Duplicate of Коронавирус в България Numbers of infected, recovered and deaths from COVID-19 by data in Bulgaria 1600 1588 1400 Cases 1200 1232 1000 Active cases 800 600 287 400 Recovered 200 0 69 08 март 15 март 22 март 29 март 05 апр 12 апр 19 апр 26 апр Deaths Cases Recovered Deaths The aim of this report is to inform bulgarian citizens of the COVID-19 and the current situation in the country. The total positive cases are 1588, active cases are 1232, with 287 recovered and 69 deaths. First cases of infected were on 4th of March, which made Bulgaria one of the last countries in Europe to have spread the pandemic. Interestingly, neither of the two first cases had traveled to areas with known coronavirus cases. 1/1 5/2/2020 Duplicate of Коронавирус в света COVID-19 Globally 2 051 800 Active cases 1 053 327 Recovered 238 650 Deaths Cases Country/Region 1 103 461 United States 213 435 Spain 207 428 Italy 178 685 United Kingdom 167 305 France Earthstar Geographics SIO, © 2020 HERE, © 2020 Microsoft Corporation 164 077 Germany 122 392 Turkey As we can see the numbers are rising rapidly for some countries, while 114 431 Russia others like China managed to deal with the crisis and the everyday life of its 95 646 Iran citizens is bringing back to normal. The number 1 country with cases now is 92 202 Brazil USA, followed by many European countries. 83 959 China Bulgaria is on the 77th place for cases and on 66th place for active cases. 3 34536 737473 C d 1/1 5/2/2020 Page 6 Cases City Cases of COVID-19 in Bulgaria by cities 741 Sofia The statistics shows that the capital of Bulgaria, Sofia, has the largest amount 154 Pleven 122 Vidin of infected, followed by Pleven and Vidin, where the numbers are high due to 72 Plovdiv the mass infection in factory and in a hospital. 65 Kustendil 54 Sliven 46 Blagoevgrad 45 Burgas 34 Stara Zagora 32 Smolqn 27 Varna 26 Pazardjik 23 Veliko Turnovo 19 Pernik 18 Montana,Bulgaria 16 Ruse 15 Haskovo 14 Qmbol 13 Dobrich 13 Kurdzhali 9 Vraca 6 Gabrovo 5 Silistra 4 Lovec 4 Shumen 2 Bansko 1588 Earthstar Geographics SIO, © 2020 HERE, © 2020 Microsoft Corporation 1/1 5/2/2020 Page 2 Quarantined by city Sofia 15,6K Plovdiv 9,0K The most quarantined people 114 307 Varna 7,3K Quarantined overall Blagoevgrad 6,6K are in the top biggest cities in Burgas 5,4K Pazardjik 4,7K Bulgaria. The number of Haskovo 4,3K active quarantined is less Pleven 3,8K Ruse 3,6K then a quarter of the overall Sliven 3,5K 21 539 Stara Zagora 3,5K quarantined, which might be Active quarantined Veliko Turnovo 2,9K as a result of the 14-day Sofia area 2,8K Kurdzhali 2,3K period. Kustendil 2,3K Shumen 2,1K The total tested people are Vidin 2,1K Dobrich 2,0K almost 48 thousands, which 47 636 Vraca 2,0K Tested Lovec 1,9K is 6 tests per thousand Montana 1,9K citizens. Qmbol 1,8K Razgrad 1,8K Silistra 1,8K Turgovishte 1,6K 6.694 Gabrovo 1,4K Pernik 1,4K Total tests per thousand Smolqn 1,1K 1/1 5/2/2020 Page 1 2 Month forecast cases of COVID-19 Forecasting the number of cases of COVID-19 for 2 months ahead, according to the data due to the moment. The lower bound predicted is under 3 K, forecast value is 3,3 K and upper bound is 3,6 K. 3500 3000 2500 2000 1588 1500 1437 1290 1081 1000 884 966 669 522 783 500 346 611 185 449 4 23 51 107 263 0 апр 2020 май 2020 юни 2020 юли 2020 1/1 5/2/2020 Duplicate of Page 2 Patients in hospitals 317 Hospitalized in intensive care Hospitalized Hospitalized 43 (13,56%) 20% Cases hospitalized 43 274 (86,44%) Intensive care The statistics shows that 20% of all cases are hospitalized. From them almost 14% are with intensive care. 174 Unfortunately, many of the cases are medical staff, 174, Medical staff forming 10%. 1/1 5/2/2020 Page 3 New cases and deaths by date in Bulgaria 100 80 60 40 20 0 08 март 15 март 22 март 29 март 05 апр 12 апр 19 апр 26 апр New deaths New cases The maximum registered per day are 91 after mass testing in several areas and a holiday celebration when a lot of people traveled and spread the virus. The maximum deaths per day is 6 people and it was registered on the last day of April. The average cases per day are 28 and average deaths per day are 1. 1/1 5/2/2020 Page 5 Bulgaria recorded 31,643 newly registered unemployed for the period between 13 March to 1 April. From these, 17,793 claimants stated that job losses were a direct consequence of the pandemic, and 12,661 registered in the week 23–27 March alone, compared to 4,561 for the same period in 2019. The number of unemployed continued to rise throughout April. According to a statistic released by the Agency of Employment, as of 28 April 2020, there were 291,426 registered unemployed, a rise of 90,405 since the introduction of the national emergency. 1/1 5/2/2020 Page 7 The project was done by Svetlana Chepilska with Power BI then exported to PDF for flattening the curve challenge: COVID-19 DATA CHALLENGE. Used sources: (1) Ministry of Health , Bulgraia https://www.mh.government.bg/bg (2) COVID-19 Data Repository by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University , https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19 (3) 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Bulgaria , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_Bulgaria (4) Official source of information for COVID-19 in Bulgaria , https://coronavirus.bg/bg (5) https://sofiaglobe.com/2020/04/22/covid-19-cases-in-bulgaria-pass-1000-mark-47-dead/ (6) https://www.eui.eu/ServicesAndAdmin/CommunicationsService/News/2020/Together-against-COVID-19 1/1.
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