Hoti addresses businesses: We'll help you overcome the situation through the economic recovery fund.

The prime minister's office through a communique released to the media has announced that the next year will continue with the recovery fund.

We will continue in the next year with the recovery fund, which is initially envisioned in many of the 182m euros, but will be increased with other external sources”.

Kosovo's “State will help overcome the” situation, states the communiques, businesses, workers, farmers, women in business, communities not majority, households in social assistance and others.

Full announcement:

The government of the Republic of Kosovo has taken all necessary actions to counter COVID-19:

1. At KKUK in Pristina and regional hospitals, health staff mobilization has been established at the highest level:

A) Health staff schedule is arranged in line with the number of patients who can appear in hospitals,
b) Clinical operational plans have been made at QKUK to provide emergency services according to priorities,
c) More beds,
D) increased oxygen supply capacity,
e) It's functional Sports Medicine where the 101 extra beds for patients with COVID-19,
f) Respiratory capacities have increased using the space of the Endocrine Clinic near Central Intensive Medicine.

2. The National Institute of Public Health is doing a huge job:

A) Tests have increased to over 2,000 a day, and almost anyone who needs to be tested within a day (from February to now there are 122 thousand citizens, of whom 116 thousand have been tested from June 4th to today),
b) Case tracking is under way and the epidemiological investigation system is being built, which enables us to predict the development of the epidemic and therefore take the necessary measures over time,
c) Schools are constantly being monitored testing students and educators and making decisions necessary in each case,
d) Contact monitoring with field teams,
e) Daily analysis of the situation on the ground is being prepared that helps health institutions take the necessary actions.

3. The Ministry of Health, in co-ordination with ministries and other institutions involved in managing the situation with COVID-19:

is supporting and coordinating the work of all health institutions,
b) is coordinating working with international partners for the support we're receiving with donations and advice,
c) It's working on providing vaccines beside EU countries,
d) Coordinating operations with municipal headquarters in particular in the field of education,
e) It has made the categories of municipalities according to the number of infected and has defined the relevant measures,
f) It is co-ordinating the measures with interest groups, both with economic options, with different associations and other groups to receive their assessments of the measures and to seek respect for them.
g) Inspectorates and police are working closely with other municipalities and institutions to monitor implementation of the measures, working long hours.
h) The additional budget has been set aside for health, education and municipalities to deal with the situation by COVID-19.

4. The municipalities have already established a system that functions fully in monitoring cases with COVIDD-19 in consultation with central institutions, local emergency headquarters have been functional, the capacities of the main Family Medicine Centres have increased in co-ordinating activities with the central level, etc.

However, the situation with COVID-19 is serious, as it is in the region and the EU. We must all help our doctors and nurses to cope with this situation by respecting the measures proposed by the IKSHP, which the Government and the Ministry of Health has undertaken.

All those affected by COVID-19 are not alone in this situation. Health staff and other institutions are in their favour.

Businesses and workers affected by this situation are not alone. The state of Kosovo will help them overcome the situation, as it has done by helping businesses, workers, farmers, women in business, communities not majority, households in social assistants and others through the 385m-euro economic recovery fund.

We will continue next year with the recovery fund, which is initially envisioned in many of the 182m euros, but will grow with other foreign resources.