Bulgaria’s State Health Inspector Warns: 2,5 Distance and FF52 Protective Masks If Covid-19 Third Wave Comes

The warning that a third wave of the coronavirus is coming to our country is not intended to scare someone, but to warn that the trend for further spread of the disease is on the rise, told BNT National Health Inspector Assoc.Prof. Angel Kunchev.

He is adamant that the reason for the new rise in morbidity, which in a week from 4% has climbed to 8.5%, is not in the loosening of anti-epidemic measures - bringing senior students back to school and opening the malls, but in the spread of the new British strain.

"Only a third of the the upper grades students resumed in-person learning a few days ago, and there was an injustice with regard to the malls because the large retail chains kept working. If the security guards in schools are watching out for masks wearing, the risk is not so great. The gradual increase in the newly infected is not the result of the students' return to classes, nor of the malls opening, if it has any impact, it will be felt in 7-10 days", explained Kunchev.

He is adamant that there is no social or economic pressure on the decisions of the National Operational Headquarters.

"We are not under pressure and no one interferes in our decision making, it is normal that we follow what is happening in the economy and try to understand the worries of the labor minister, we are citizens of this country. The health authorities consist of many people, with different opinions, their opinions are taken into account when preparing executive orders. There is an exchange of opinions, sometimes in raised voice," added Angel Kunchev.

The expert explained that pandemics always develop in such a way - wavelike, so it was with bird flu, swine flu or Spanish flu. There are many factors that affect the spread of infection: such as the...