Expert: COVID-19 can kill as many Bulgarians as the population of Panagyurishte or Velingrad – Diseases

COVID-19 (directly or indirectly) kills more than twice as many people a week as in other years. In just the last 2 months, the population of an entire city like Nessebar, Chirpan or Peshtera has died due to the extraordinary mortality from COVID-19. This analysis was carried out by mathematician and crisis management expert Petar Velkov.

“By the end of the year, as a result of an uncontrolled pandemic, as many people will have died as the inhabitants of some of the cities such as Panagyurishte, Gotse Delchev, Karlovo or Velingrad. This will only be for the last 2 and a half months (10 weeks)” , said. Velkov.

Although a reduction in mortality and morbidity was expected due to the restrictive measures introduced, the data shows that in the last 2 weeks alone more people have died from Covid-19 than during the whole of last year from influenza and pneumonia combined.

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“Kovid is the leading cause of death in Bulgaria with underestimated values ​​and unrecorded mortality from the virus. Values ​​for deaths from heart attacks, strokes, other diseases and accidents are lower than Kovid and only for 9 months and when measures are imposed to limit the spread ”, emphasizes Petar Velkov, who with his colleagues has made a special schedule.