Friday, 5 June 2020
Macedonia 05.06.20 | 22:48

“Stop Corona” app so far hasn’t detected a single case of coronavirus

  The mobile app that the Ministry of Information Society and Administration and the Government promoted as one of the main tools for helping in the fight against the coronavirus, so far has not  detected a single coronavirus case, writes pina.mk. Until today (Thursday, June 4), no new positive...

Macedonia 05.06.20 | 21:38

Janusev: Measures are catastrophic, from Skopje, Zaev and SDSM sent the coronavirus to spread across Macedonia

While the number of coronavirus infections worldwide is declining, the number in our country is rising at the speed of light, reaching a record number of cases, said VMRO-DPMNE Secretary General Igor Janusev in a Facebook post. The measures are catastrophic, from Skopje, Zaev and SDSM sent the coronavirus...

Macedonia 05.06.20 | 20:59

Nikolov: About 80 thousand people left Skopje and if there was testing, 4 -8 thousand would test positive showing no symptoms, spreading the virus

The relaxation of measures taken under the influence of politics, in order to distribute packages under the guise that it is intended for socially disadvantaged people, results in a large number of new infections. With that, we got a political party that is a cluster of spreading the disease, Igor Nikolov,...

Macedonia 05.06.20 | 20:16

Filipce: No tests for people who spend lockdown weekend outside of Skopje

Those who left the capital to spend the extended weekend in some of the tourist destinations will not be tested if they show no symptoms, Venko Filipce said Friday. Speaking at a news conference, the Health Minister said lockdown is not a discriminatory measure, adding that all measures have been made...

Macedonia 05.06.20 | 19:34

Filipce: Second wave a result of failure to comply with measures

Fifteen families make up about 90 percent of the new COVID-19 cases, shows a cluster analysis of new patients. According to Health Minister Venko Filipce, this shows that transmission is within these clusters, however, new sporadic cases are a proof that the virus is here and spreading. We clearly have...

Macedonia 05.06.20 | 19:00

Filipce: Of 10 positive cases in one family, only 1 showed symptoms

Health Minister Venko Filipce said Friday that 90 per cent of the new confirmed cases are in fact asymptomatic virus carriers and the rest ten per cent are showing mild symptoms. For example, he said, out of ten members of the same family, only one tested positive with mild symptoms, while the other...

Macedonia 05.06.20 | 18:20

Fifteen families make up 90 percent of new COVID-19 cases, says Filipce

Fifteen families make up about 90 percent of new COVID-19 cases, shows a cluster analysis of new patients. According to Health Minister Venko Filipce, this shows that transmission is within these clusters, however, new sporadic cases are a proof that the virus is here and spreading. We clearly have a...

Macedonia 05.06.20 | 18:14

Zaev and Mickoski with same ratings among Macedonians, ratings of Ahmeti and Sela same among Albanians

A poll conducted by the US International Republican Institute (IRI) shows that the support that Zoran Zaev enjoyed was almost halved between January and February this year, even before the coronavirus outbreak began. In the IRI poll published in February, Zaev enjoyed 13 percent popularity, while in...

Macedonia 05.06.20 | 17:11

2 patients die, 180 new COVID-19 cases, of which 109 in Skopje

The Ministry of Health said Friday there were a total of 180 new COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours. The Institute for Public Health has registered 11 recovered patients, of whom in Skopje 6, in Veles 4 and in Prilep 1. Two patients have died – a 52-year-old man from Kumanovo and a 68-year-old woman...

Culture 05.06.20 | 16:28

After his insults aimed at countries such as Croatia and Slovenia, VMRO-DPMNE demands that Gorjan Tozija is removed from office

The opposition VMRO-DPMNE party called for the immediate removal of Gorjan Tozija as head o the Macedonian Film Agency, after his hateful social media rants in which he insulted a number of countries such as Croatia and Slovenia. Tozija was apparently angry because of the way the scandalous publication...

Macedonia 05.06.20 | 15:34

Filipce and Karadzovski endangered the whole of Macedonia with the weekend lockdown order

Epidemiologist Toni Konjanovski accused the Government of endangering the entire country with its reckless weekend curfew policy. The Government ordered the capital Skopje and several other densely populated cities to go under a total lockdown for more than three days, which just prompted tens of thousands...

Macedonia 05.06.20 | 15:22

Zaev says he will not allow DUI in the next Government if Ahmeti insists on an ethnic Albanian Prime Minister

SDSM party leader Zoran Zaev dismissed the statement from his coalition partner Ali Ahmeti, that his DUI party will focus on appointing an ethnic Albanian Prime Minister after the next elections. DUI party leader Ali Ahmeti sets his new goal: ethnic Albanian Prime Minister of Macedonia It is true that...

Macedonia 05.06.20 | 14:32

After 48 days, first new Covid-19 case reported in Debar

After a month and a half, there is a new Covid-19 case diagnosed in Debar.The city was the first major hotspot in Macedonia and had t o be put under a complete quarantine, with police sealing it off from the rest of Macedonia, but by late April it was declared corona free. The first new case since then...

Macedonia 05.06.20 | 14:21

DUI party leader Ali Ahmeti sets his new goal: ethnic Albanian Prime Minister of Macedonia

The leader of the DUI party Ali Ahmeti announced that the next goal is electing an ethnic Albanian Prime Minister of Macedonia after the next elections. DUI, the party born out of Ahmeti’s 2001 terrorist movement, was celebrating its 18th anniversary when Ahmeti made the announcement. Let’s...

Macedonia 05.06.20 | 14:08

VMRO asks Health Minister Filipce if he’s hiding Covid-19 cases, after differences between him and local officials emerge

The opposition VMRO-DPMNE party accused Healthcare Minister Venko Filipce of trying to cover up coronavirus cases, after discrepancies appeared between numbers given by Filipce’s Ministry and local authorities. The director of the Stip hospital, who is appointed by SDSM and is a former SDSM member...

Macedonia 05.06.20 | 12:58

Kanal 5 reports we are having another grim day with 160 newly infected coronavirus patients

Kanal 5 TV reports that the coronavirus tests conducted over the past 24 hours found 160 newly infected patients. If confirmed, this would be the worst daily toll since the start of the epidemic. Macedonia had only three days with the number of new cases in the triple digits before. The first was in...

Macedonia 05.06.20 | 12:46

Doctor Manojloski: Holding elections now will lead to many casualties

Holding elections at this time will cause many casualties, warned doctor Goran Manojloski, a former member of Parliament for VMRO-DPMNE, as the ruling SDSM party insists that the elections take place on July 5. Macedonia has the worst death and infection statistics since the start of the epidemic, but...

Macedonia 05.06.20 | 12:14

Police finds 591 violations of the order mandating the wearing of masks

Over the past 24 hours, police officers reported 591 violations of the regulation ordering citizens to wear face masks in confined public spaces. Additionally, 48 citizens were detained for violating the overnight curfew which was reintroduced after the spike in coronavirus cases. The police also ordered...

Macedonia 05.06.20 | 11:20

Skopje Mayor Silegov accused of hiring SDSM party activists

Skopje authorities have announced they will hire new workers at the Drisla garbage plant for 140.000 EUR. The announcement comes at a time of unprecedented healthcare and economic crisis, but also ahead of elections expected in the second half of the year. Hiring in public sector institutions is often...

Macedonia 05.06.20 | 11:12

Prosecutors go after bishop Agatangel

Veles prosecutors announced charges against bishop Agatangel, after he called on the faithful to freely come to the churches over the weekend and honor their deceased loved ones. Macedonia is under a renewed lockdown for the Pentecost weekend – major cities like Skopje are fully locked down, while...

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