Bulgarian health minister awards his advisor with a golden medal for successfully dealing with the pandemic. Bulgaria has had the highest COVID death rate in Europe and is still recording more daily deaths than countries like the UK with а 10 times higher population.
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On Friday, Health Minister Stoycho Katsarov honored his adviser, epidemiologist Prof. Mira Kozhuharova, with the ministry’s gold medal for “her outstanding contribution” to the management of the Covid-19 epidemic. The symbolic act coincided with the announced by the health authorities “breaking” of this wave of coronavirus and leaving the dark red Covid zone.
“If anyone has helped us the most with advice, assessment, analysis, recommendations on how to act in this situation, it is Prof. Kozhuharova,” said Katsarov. He added that thanks to her, no lockdown was reached and hospitals were not allowed to become exhausted during this wave.
“I was very lucky to be able to work with this team. In fact, they did the work. I played the role of the grumbling man. Sometimes they listened to me, sometimes not, but I was lucky to work with them. If you think that always “We were smiling, it’s not like that. We were arguing, which wasn’t bad either. Thank you very much,” Kozhuharova said.
Katsarov announced that from tomorrow we will probably get out of the dark red zone of morbidity over 500 per 100,000 people and we will fall below this threshold. Currently, the 14-day incidence of Covid in the country is 503.99 per 100,000 people. Kozhuharova announced that the peak of this wave was reached on November 4 with a morbidity of 928.03 per 100,000 people.
“Exactly today we can say that we have broken the epidemic wave. It was not easy at all. The political situation was for everyone to attack us in order to extract dividends. They did it,” Katsarov commented.
Katsarov also thanked the people who have adopted the green certificate.
“We managed to break this wave, first of all thanks to our compatriots who accepted the idea of the green certificate, as well as to the medics in the hospitals who helped those in need,” Katsarov said.
Kozhuharova reported that the number of patients in hospitals is decreasing. There is also a decline in the number of deaths, although it still remains high, she added. Currently, the death rate from Covid is 28.06 per 100,000 people on a 14-day basis. On a weekly basis, mortality decreased by 12.46%. On a daily basis, an average of about 130 deaths were registered in the last week.
According to Prof. Kozhuharova, in the first place the high mortality is due to the refusal of vaccinations.
Maybe now, with the fall of the wave, more people will be vaccinated, she predicts.
Kozhuharova, however, warned that the danger had not passed because there would be a new wave. The virus will continue to be a danger until enough people are vaccinated, she said.
Maybe the advice was good but just not implemented.
It boggles my mind how there are people treating the president’s “expert” government as some kind of noble heroes when they are anything but…
Great success
Will this go without consequences?
Could be worse.
Good job, well done, Eastern Europe style.
Wait, aren’t high numbers good?