One out of five Bulgarians believes that Bill Gates was behind the coronavirus pandemic, as a way to control people by microchips that would be introduced into humans through vaccines against the virus.

More than 2.3 million Bulgarians believe that the novel coronavirus was artificially created and more than one million believe that the virus did not exist and that it was a global fraud. This is shown by the data from a study by Trend agency commissioned by the 24 Chasa newspaper. The study tests the attitudes of Bulgarians after the end of the state of emergency and lifting of anti-epidemic measures.