Crisis HQ to meet today at 3 pm: Doctors worried about the new wave of the epidemic

Photo: Tanjug/Serbian government/Slobodan Miljevic

Members of the Crisis HQ for coronavirus epidemic will meet at 3 pm. Prime Minister Ana Brnabic announced that the meeting would be held today, at which the current epidemiological situation will be discussed.

Recommended

"On Friday, I had a meeting with our national vaccination body, and they will give a recommendation to the Crisis HQ regarding the third (vaccine) dose by July 23, which will make its position known on August 1," Brnabic added.

Brnabic told TV Pink that the medical part of the Crisis HQ is worried about a possible new wave of coronavirus and insufficient immunization.

"We are monitoring the numbers by two hours, the president and I, we look at how things are in municipalities and cities. The safest situation is in those local governments with the largest number of vaccinated people," said Brnabic and added that since yesterday morning, Gornji Milanovac also had more than 50 percent vaccinated residents.

Epidemiologist Predrag Kon said that a new wave of the epidemic has already begun, and by analyzing the numbers, he also determined when it will be at its peak and how long it could last.

"The claims that we are facing a new surge of the Covid epidemic are based on everything we have learned about it, the time of incubation, the scope of vaccination, which will be difficult to change. You can clearly see what awaits us in the examples of Great Britain and Israel, the reproduction rate clearly shows that the number of infected people is increasing from week to week, it will happen in our country as well, that number will increase relative to our behavior," Dr. Kon said.

He explained in detail what we can expect in the coming period.

"The more relaxed we behave, the faster the increase (in new cases) will be. So the number of newly infected people will grow faster. In that case, I expect it to peak in six weeks, and overall this wave would last even longer, because it takes time for the curve to flatten," added Dr. Kon.

(Telegraf.rs)