Bulgaria’s Chief Health Inspector: Third Wave of Coronavirus Is Highly Likely

Chief Health Inspector, Assoc. Prof. Angel Kunchev also set a personal example by immunizing himself against COVID-19.

The vaccine will be administered to him at the Regional Health Inspectorate - Sofia.

Before he was vaccinated, a nurse examined his health status.

Assoc. Prof. Kunchev joked that there should be no side effects, because tomorrow there is a briefing of the National Operational Headquarters and he will be very busy in the coming days.

"My program by the end of the week is ready, so no chance of side effects," the Chief Health Inspector said.

A third wave of the coronavirus seems entirely possible, as it will come with the new more contagious strain from the UK and because of it we are likely to see new restrictions, Angel Kunchev forecast.

„The news that came from the UK was very unpleasant. There, the morbidity increase was exponential - the country returned to the most severe phase of the epidemic and surpassed it. With the UK variant, virus concentration in the nasopharynx is 10-100 times higher, much more are the viruses that are transmitted," the expert explained on bTV.

According to him, at present in Ireland 40% of new cases are from this strain, there are also cases of infection in a region in the Netherlands. There are proven cases in Greece, and yesterday it became clear that a large percentage of new cases in Bulgaria also raise doubts.

'Let everyone be aware that if this threat returns in the same way as it was in the UK, the health system will be put to incredible testing, hospitals we will be crammed again.

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