31 people entered Kosovo illegally, placed in quarantine

Centre for Asylum Director in the village of Lipjan and Pristina village of Vranidol Fitim Zariqi told Radio Free Europe that 31 people, who in recent days have illegally entered Kosovo, have been placed in quarantine, under suspicion that they might be infected with coronarys.

All are migrants from different countries, but mainly from Syria.

Zariqi said they are constantly controlled by medical teams and that, so far, there is no confirmed case with Covid-19, the disease that causes the coronary.

Kosovo police, a few days ago, have banned several migrants in Pristina who stayed in abandoned homes.

According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Public Administration, Kosovo, since the beginning of the year, about a thousand migrants have been illegally introduced.

Zariqi said that of them, about 700 have sought asylum.