5 hours agoA year from showing the first two cases with COVID in Kosovo
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)An extraordinary conference invited by timely Prime Minister Albin Kurti and then Health Minister Arben Vitita on March 13th 2020, at 17:30 minutes, was confirmed for the first two cases with the SARS-COV-2 virus in our country. A 77-year-old from the village of Stuble of the Year and an Italian citizen were two cases [...]
An extraordinary conference invited by timely Prime Minister Albin Kurti and then Health Minister Arben Vitita on March 13th 2020, at 17:30 minutes, was confirmed for the first two cases with the SARS-COV-2 virus in our country.
A 77-year-old from the village of Stubble of the Year and an Italian citizen were two positive cases from 15 samples that were tested between 12 March and 13 March last year. The government took strict measures and the country went towards total closure.
A year after the appearance of the first two cases, Kosovo today numbers 76,110 cases out of 348,381 suspected persons in the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The most affected age group remains 30-39 years old, with 19.5% of the cases.
The number of those who didn't win the battle with the virus is 1.688. The total number of cures to date total 63,892 cases, while the number of active cases is 10,530.
Pristina follows to be the most affected municipality with about 30,000 cases in total and over 250 dead.
Kosovo remains the only country in the Balkans without any doses of vaccines, while the region's states have already begun vaccinating.
Albania has offered to vaccinate Kosovo doctors through an agreement between the two countries in Kukes, but remains to be seen how.
Authorities continue to reiterate the same promise that vaccines will come soon, while the number of daily cases has begun to rise as a result of the election campaign for the February elections.
