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The first COVID-19 representative study for the country begins to be organized in Plovdiv. It will fully comply with the criteria of the World Health Organization, reports BNT.
Assoc. Prof. Angel Kunchev, Chief Inspector of State Health: We want representation from all Plovdiv regions to be mandatory, although the survey is limited to the city of Plovdiv only, and the methodology is a coincidence that is particularly important. In this case, it covers, as in the map of Plovdiv, we randomly designate points where we can then send letters, in addition to letters we will send teams, at least 10 teams will build two people. They will be mainly with representatives of the RII and 1 volunteer each. The main unit of the survey is households, we will work with households, not with individuals. As much as the management, a lot. If a person is a pensioner, that’s fine. If it’s a family with two children, that’s fine. If in Stolipinovo we come to an address with 14 people inside, well, we are investigating everyone. Therefore, we will have representativeness both as social groups, as ethnic groups and as age groups, of course, all this is absolutely voluntary.
Dr. Savina Stoitsova, epidemiologist, National Center for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases: Housework is not the most perfect sample, it is the most feasible sample that can still be managed. And for us, households will be the unit we will survey.
Dr. Siika Dimcheva, RII-Plovdiv, member of the study organizing committee: The principle of the investigation will be, first of all, randomness, secondly, voluntariness. Randomness will be achieved by designating independent points in the six districts of Plovdiv. The purpose is not to investigate the individual, but the home.
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