Bulgarian infectious disease wards are overcapacity and would have to seek additional funding in order to handle the second upcoming flu wave.
Epidemics are declared in the municipalities of Varna and Burgas with the main virus being a flu-type B.
GP care services are highly demanded in recent days. In the city of Blagoevgrad, 23 children are hospitalized in the local children’s ward.
Some of the schoolchildren are worried about the upcoming external independent testing because of the shortened school time.
Among them is the seventh-grader Yane. He explains that students have to go through significantly larger volumes of schoolwork in a shorter period of time. This means skipping exercises that the children would have to make up for during the after-classes.
The head of the Military Medical Academy of Sofia – General Ventsislav Mutafchiiski, commented that the hospital is already overcapacity and some wards may have to be shut down and reorganized to handle the upcoming flu wave.
Professor Todor Kantardzhiev – Director of the National Center for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, explained that anti-flu medication supplies are depleted. He believes that part of the reason is the coronavirus, even tho there is no scientific evidence that traditional flue treatments have any effect on it.
Translation: Ivaylo Yotov
