Bulgarian Doctor: If we don’t manage the Pandemic, we will become the Covid Ghetto of Europe

"Since the beginning of the pandemic, we have provided the Ministry of Health with an algorithm on how to develop a strategy for communicating risk and involving the whole society in the fight against coronavirus and how to increase people's confidence in measures before vaccines are available. Nothing has been done - neither by the previous nor by the current Ministry of Health. Although there is time to prepare an information campaign now, at least for the vaccination, for which we will receive help from the WHO", said Assoc. Prof. Mihail Okoliiski on the tightening of measures.

"In countries with high vaccination coverage, the measures are tightened because the number of cases of infected unvaccinated or with expired immunity is increasing, they must break the curve," said Dr. Lyudmil Shopov.

"But there are people in Austria who are of the opinion that you should get sick and have Covid parties ... I've heard that, I haven't seen it ... In half a year we will all have encountered the virus.

He confirmed that vaccinated people also get sick, but to a large extent they make it easier ... There are also deaths of people who died with the vaccine, we also had a patient over 89 years old ", the cardiologist from ISUL gave an example.

"People are not vaccinated because they had to talk in a warm and proactive way about the benefits and side effects of vaccines," said Assoc. Prof. Okoliiski.

At the same time, our country is seen as a strange bird, an island of unknown practices, such as those with fake certificates. People go to prison for a false certificate in Greece, said Assoc. Prof. Okoliiski.

According to Dr. Lyudiml Shopov, we simply lack the word empathy and at-risk...