Bulgaria reports record-high 4,851 daily COVID-19 cases

FILE PHOTO: A woman wearing protective face mask walks past a poster, illustrating a medic in a replica of Michelangelo's Pieta, placed on a wall near vaccination centre at Pirogov hospital, amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Sofia, Bulgaria, March 12, 2021. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov

Bulgaria reported 4,851 new cases of coronavirus over the past 24 hours, its highest daily tally on record, government health data showed on Wednesday.

In total, the Balkan country of 7 million people has recorded 312,741 cases since the start of the pandemic, including 12,307 deaths.

(Reporting by Tsvetelia Tsolova; Editing by Christopher Cushing)