Covid-19 is not statistics. Press conferences on corona reports are being held daily. 195 deaths in one week, 1,305 since the pandemic began in March. But Covid-19 is not statistics. These are people with a name and a surname. Someone’s mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, someone’s children, Rasela Mizrahi from the Executive Committee of VMRO-DPMNE said in her speech at Sunday’s event organized by the party, at which lanterns were released into the sky in order to pay tribute to the coronavirus victims.

The government seems to have signed a capitulation on this issue as well, and the healthcare system is collapsing. Filipce, except for empty words, has no concrete solutions. And this battle is not won with press conferences, but with measures and mobilization of all quality staff. While expensive PR is being sold for the sole purpose of escaping responsibility, in the style of this government, it is clear, Mr. Prime Minister, and you, Mr. Minister of Health, that the responsibility is entirely yours, she said.

We all know that people are dying from the coronavirus all over the world, but we are sure that this tragedy would have been much smaller had it not been for your inability to manage the crisis. This event tonight is a tribute to the people we lost, and much more could have been done. They are not here because of the incompetent government and Venko Filipce who has to resign. His resignation is not a matter of political action but a matter of necessity, a matter of life, Mizrahi said.