In his attempt to assure vaccine skeptics, Zoran Zaev made a major math blunder this evening. During a TV interview he was assuring the public that only 10 percent of the 7,700 active cases were vaccinated, and insisted that it amounts to 77 people – not the correct 770 people. Zaev also pushed another confusing statistic, stating that only 0.017 percent of all vaccinated citizens are currently actively infected – even though the share of the unvaccinated citizens who have Covid-19 is almost as small.

Doctor Nikola Panovski condemned the Prime Minister for his math gymnastics and said that it won’t help in the public campaigns.

It’s a dire situation if the Prime Minister thinks that the vaccinated are infected at a rate ten times lower than what the Healthcare Ministry is declaring, and bases his decisions on this assumption, the microbiologist said.