Although the number of infected people in B&H has been declining lately, the black statistics regarding the number of those who lost the battle with the coronavirus have been worrying for days.

A dramatic increase in the number of deaths was recorded yesterday, and health institutions in B&H reported as many as 86 deaths. Despite certain doubts about the accuracy of the data published in neighboring countries, official reports show that the situation in our country is critical.

Official data

Despite the fact that Croatia and Serbia have much more inhabitants than B&H, Serbia almost twice as many, the indicators on the number of deaths that were positive for coronavirus, to put it mildly, are worrying, because from the official reports of the public health institutes of these three countries according to the number of dead, B&H is often ahead of its neighbors.

According to official data, 49 people died in Serbia yesterday, 71 in Croatia and 86 in B&H. The day before, Serbia recorded 47 deaths, Croatia 80, and B&H 52 deaths.

As for the total number of deaths since the beginning of the pandemic, official reports show that 2,782 people have died in Serbia so far, 3,328 in Croatia, and 3,792 in B&H (2,064 in FB&H, 1,610 in RS and 118 in Brčko District).

However, health experts from B&H are not convinced of the accuracy of such data.

One of the most experienced, infectologist Bakir Nakaš, sees statistics as a "story about meat and cabbage", according to which we all "eat" sarma, and points out that he has been convinced on countless occasions that statistics are not accurate, especially those that refer to a hitherto unknown disease.

Accurate reports

- There are many unknowns, who and how determined the death, whether an autopsy was performed… People die in any case, and today it is enough to "comb" the coronavirus and say that we died from it. That is why I am not sure that all these reports are completely accurate, not only in Balkans but also in much more developed countries of the world - says Nakaš.

Prim. dr. Ednan Drljević, a specialist infectologist, is sure that statistics in neighboring countries are adapting to events such as the tourist season or elections, and rejects them as unconvincing and false.

People call the doctor late

- In our country, the number of deaths from COVID is still slightly higher, I am almost certain of that, because people call the doctor relatively late, when there is less opportunity to help them. That could be some justification for why we have a relatively high number of deaths compared to other countries. But I am sure that in the surrounding countries the data are the same as ours. If they are not worse, they are not, for sure, better - Drljević thinks.