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Epidemiologist Zoran Radovanović declared for the Nova.rs portal the 50 biggest mistakes during the coronavirus epidemic.
As a first mistake, he stated that long-term warnings sent by the World Health Organization to countries that this type of pandemic could break out and that protective equipment, materials and certain medicines should be reserved were ignored.
Said to Novu.rs that the press conference of December 26 showed that the highest political and health authorities do not understand the danger that lies ahead, after the sequence of events in the situation, which is attributed to the activation of the Expert Commission of the Republic on Diseases Infectious, it was completely ignored.
Radovanović claimed that the Crisis Team was formed outside of procedures, that on March 15, a state of emergency was introduced and that only four days later a state of emergency was declared due to the epidemic.
As a seventh mistake, he claimed that at the end of March, the Prime Minister informed the public about the information system that allows an accurate view of illness and death in real time, that the system was good, but the government abandoned it when BIRN noted the massive falsification of data.
“The introduction of the state of emergency is justified by the alleged impossibility of imposing restrictions on circulation and sanction in accordance with the Law on Prevention and Suppression of Infectious Diseases, and neither the first nor the second are true, because that law in its version above, almost identical, served to successfully combat smallpox. ” Radovanović stated.
By listing the omissions, he also referred to the new Act on the Prevention and Suppression of Infectious Diseases recently passed and noted that it did not touch on the part of the prohibitions, obligations and restrictions of movement, but only raised the level of fines and introduced the Personal Crisis term.
The dating ban was aggressively politically abused
He also noted that the curfew and the multi-week ban on leaving the home for the elderly will be controversial for a long time, adding that the omission is that the purchase of respirators was mystified and “politically aggressively abused.”
“Ventilators have become a central issue at the expense of the acquisition of other equally important equipment for intensive care units,” said Radovanovic, noting that not only in March and April, but also later, basic protective equipment he was “overwhelmed.”
He noted that there was not enough PCR testing, that border measures were not implemented, that there was confusion in the first and second waves about who should contact people with respiratory disorders, that quarantines became the opposite by serving as a breeding ground. for infection. Crisis personnel made decisions that were often unenforceable and that with the end of the state of emergency, the activity of crisis personnel “abruptly faltered”.
He claimed that pre-election rallies with thousands of participants are allowed, as well as soccer matches, noting that in May, Crisis staff claimed the virus was weak.
“The painful truth is that our health, which was limping under normal circumstances, showed all its weaknesses during this epidemic,” Radovanovic said.
