NOBODY CAN SEND THOUSAND THOUSAND CONTACTS: warned Tiodorović – Do not be sure that you are healthy and that the virus has not reached you

Serbia has only 126 epidemiologists, which is absolutely insufficient to send all the contacts of those infected when we have more than 1,500 positives a day. No one can find thousands and thousands of contacts, so it is very important that everyone wear masks, keep their distance, and report to the kovid clinic as soon as they notice the slightest symptom.

Two days ago, Dr. Srdja Jankovic, a crisis headquarters immunologist, was the first to point out the problem of the lack of epidemiologists, saying that Serbia only has a hundred of them and that they cannot send all the contacts of all infected people.

And the epidemiologist and crisis staff member prof. Dr Branislav Tiodorović specified that Serbia currently has 126 epidemiologists.

– But they are concentrated in “Trampoline”, Novi Sad, Nis, Kragujevac, and the whole country must be covered. There are also places that do not have an epidemiologist, so it is covered by regional institutes and institutes of public health. However, it is not a question of whether epidemiologists will find contacts, general practitioners and educated students and volunteers can do the same. Epidemiologists, first of all, must organize the work, determine the strategy when the infection appears in large groups, schools, kindergartens … What happens is that no one in the world can achieve it or catch it now because the numbers are enormous . Contacts in our country are sought by health centers, institutes and institutes of public health, but it is not the same to make 100, 200, 300 and even 2,000 contacts and 20,000 of them – said Tiodorović and added:

– Do not be sure that you are healthy and that the virus has not reached you because, let’s say, you are young and have no problems. Young people are the biggest carriers of the virus. For all that, it is very important that everyone wears masks, keep their distance, wash their hands, and that disinfection is done regularly.

He also explained that precisely because it is difficult to capture thousands and thousands of contacts, there is a screening.

– In simple terms, it’s sifting, which means you examine an environment and find newly infected people in it. You go to a destination, to a school or a work team, or perhaps to a newsroom, to a part of the city. You should have a reason for that: to increase the number of first exams or to come to hospitals from there more than from elsewhere. And precisely for this reason it is estimated that there are many more infected, even up to 10 times, than the official figures – emphasized Tiodorović.

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