Chief State Health Inspector: Measures against Covid-19 are likely to be extended to the end of May

The anti-epidemic measures against the spread of Covid-19 should be extended to the end of May. Yes, a slight decline has begun, but there is no way to bring the pandemic under control by the end of April, Bulgaria’s Chief State Health Inspector, Angel Kunchev, told BNT on April 9.

The capacity of the hospitals will withstand, but I don’t know how long the people will withstand. The fatigue is huge. The reduction of the morbidity still is not easing hospitalisations. It is too early to be calm,” he said.

As regards vaccinations with AstraZeneca, Kunchev said that the risk of side effects after vaccination was so small that it was worth completing the vaccination. Special attention should be paid to women under the age of 30 who are overweight, heavy smokers and those taking contraceptives.

"I really liked an assessment that one of my colleagues, a working epidemiologist at the Centre for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, had done Given all the cases in Europe and the UK, of such side effects, the chance for a person to develop the same reactions, the same thrombosis, if not immunized and get the disease, it is exactly 1000 times greater than getting those side effects from vaccination," said Assoc. Prof. Kunchev.

The chief state health inspector stressed that there is no way to issue a vaccination certificate if the second dose of the vaccine has not been given.