Thursday, 26 March 2020
Macedonia 26.03.20 | 12:03

Macedonian citizens continue to trickle back from abroad

Macedonian citizens who live or work abroad continue to trickle back to the home country, where they face two weeks in mandatory quarantine. This morning, 42 citizens came back in individual cars from Slovenia. Later today, a bus will bring 27 citizens from Istanbul. Due to the risk of spreading the...
Economy 26.03.20 | 11:47

Levica: Koco Angusev’s companies are firing workers, ordering them to reuse disposable face masks

The Brako metalworks in Veles, owned by the former Deputy Prime Minister Koco Angusev, has been reported to labour inspectors for failing to provide its workers with protective gear needed during the coronavirus epidemic. Brako workers were told to wash and re-use the disposable masks, said the Levica...
Macedonia 26.03.20 | 11:17

Love during the coronavirus epidemic

A heart-warming picture of a couple has instantly become iconic symbol of the hardships of the coronavirus epidemic in Macedonia. It shows a police officers and a nurse sharing a moment divided by protective glass. While many are required simply to stay in their homes and Netflix and chill, the epidemic...
Macedonia 26.03.20 | 10:55

VMRO: Government officials are spending millions on luxury items while citizens are desperate for medical assistance

The opposition VMRO-DPMNE party revealed that the spending the SDSM led Government approved on travel, restaurant lunches and other non-essential items in just a few days during the peak of the coronavirus epidemic (March 17-20) amounted to a total of 8 million denars (130.000 EUR). While hundreds of...
Macedonia 26.03.20 | 10:03

Reckless director endangers Macedonia’s main clinical complex with her ski trip to Italy

The Healthcare Ministry confirmed that doctor Nina Caca Biljanovska, head of the Skopje Dermatology Clinic who contracted the coronavirus during a ski trip to Italy and recklessly continued going to work, infected five colleagues. The clinic was closed as soon as Caca was diagnosed positive to the virus...
Balkans 26.03.20 | 09:41

Under international pressure, Kosovo Parliament ends Albin Kurti’s short-lived Government

The Parliament of Kosovo voted out the short-lived Albin Kurti Government. The populist leaders was undermined by open hostility from US diplomats, which pushed his coalition partner LDK to jump ship. A last minute intervention from a number of European Union countries, led by France and Germany, on...
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