There are only 16 municipalities in the red zone this week

Health Minister Andmend Zemaj has stressed that the death toll still remains high, even though the number of infected has declined.

He at a media conference Friday has indicated the ranking of municipalities, taking into account the number of infected persons.

During the past week, 21 municipalities were in the red zone, meanwhile this week will be 16.

In the yellow area are 9 municipalities, meanwhile, 13 municipalities have passed the green.

The number of deaths in these two periods is the same, in the performance of pandemic it has proved that the death toll remains high even weeks after the decline of the number of cases... Today we have the new ranking of municipalities based on the number of infected during the week to 100,000 people. In the red zone, there are now only 16 municipalities, in the yellow area there are 9 municipalities, and in the green area, due to the improved epidemiological situation, 13 municipalities --” -- Zemaj has said.

He has called on citizens to be careful, and to implement anti measures - CO VID, since it says the situation is serious. He has confirmed that hospitals are overloaded, for which he called for citizens' care.

“Hospitals are overloaded and no one has the right to carelessly exacerbate the situation and risk life, their family, our families and health system “, Zemaj added.

Zemaj said that in the past two weeks, the country has stagnation on the spread of the coronary.

E, director IKSHP, Naser Ramadani, has told of the number of people infected over the past 24 hours.

“over the last 24 hours in the molecular microbiology lab at IKSHP and in private labs with the method The PCR has tested a total of 1775 patients, of which samples received by SSKUK and tracking cases in the field and private labs, out of which 590 result positive. Within 24 hours the battle has been lost by 13 citizens with positive SARS-COV2 and we express the most sincere condolences to family members. Death cases are from the municipality of Ferizaj-3, aged 83, 59 and 54. Two cases in Pec, 77, and 72, Prizren two cases -- 89 years old and 81. In a 78-year-old case, Podujevo a 76-year-old case, Suhareka a case 81, Drenas an 81-year-old case, Gjakova a case 81, and Rahovec a 61-year-old body case, he said.

Ramadani stressed that the number of people infected so far in Kosovo is over 45 thousand, until he added that more than 160 thousand tests have been made.

On the other hand, SKKUK Director Valbon Krasniqi's taskman, also showed people who are hospitalised in clinics where people are being treated with COVID.

These days the number of patients who receive services in 24 hours has exceeded 1,000. Fortunately during these days, we have a very slight drop in the number of hospitals, and today we have 900 hospitals in all our hospitals and QKUK clinics. There are 640 of them with constant 24-hour oxygen therapy. And there are about 40 other patients who are in a more serious state of health, who we estimate as critical, whether assembled, or with the next invasive”, he stressed.

He pledged that SKKKUK is providing services to all those in need, as well as offering medicine to patients.

Asked that some citizens have spent up to 5,000 euros on the treatment of family members with COVID, he said this price is too big, so if they have evidence to document it, they will be helped.

The price of 5,000 euros for treating patients with COVID is a little too large. However, I encourage all those who have such evidence who have spent all those drugs on buying medicine to document them and see how we can help citizens. We never said we were providing 100 percent of all hospitals, ”, Krasniqi said at a news conference.

Zemaj has also talked about the demands of gastronomics on the duration of the schedule, which he said has already passed the Law on Economic Recovery, and that restrictions are being made all over the world because of the pandemic situation.

He also stressed that they are awaiting an answer regarding the required report whether there are family members who stay with patients in clinics.