Thursday, 6 August 2020
Macedonia 06.08.20 | 23:36

Coronavirus outbreak in the Skopje Gerontology hospital

Five patients of the Gerontology hospital in Skopje tested positive to the coronavirus. Three members of the staff were also positive, and have likely brought the virus into the vulnerable environment. Two of the patients have more serious symptoms and have been sent to the Kozle clinic, director Salija...
Macedonia 06.08.20 | 23:08

DUI denies reports that it agreed to have Lazar Elenovski as the next Prime Minister

DUI spokesman Bujar Osmani denied the media reports that the party is proposing former Defense Minister Lazar Elenovski as the next Prime Minister. DUI campaigned on having an ethnic Albanian as Prime Minister, specifically Naser Ziberi, while Elenovski is half Albanian. We had a candidate for Prime...
Macedonia 06.08.20 | 22:56

SDSM reportedly plans to propose Sekerinska as Speaker of Parliament

SDSM plans to nominate Radmila Sekerinska as Speaker of the Parliament, the Albanian language ABC news site reports. According to the site, SDSM is hoping to cobble together enough votes, along with ethnic Albanian parties, to form a Government, and a first step would be the election of a new Speaker....
Macedonia 06.08.20 | 20:58

Healthcare Minister Filipce insists that schools must reopen

Healthcare Minister Venko Filipce insisted that schools must reopen and that protocols can be put in place to protect the children. The coronavirus is here and we must learn to function with it. We can’t have the children stop going to schools. We can have preventive protocols under which the schools...
Macedonia 06.08.20 | 20:54

Ahmeti meets with Zaev to see if they can restore trust after the bitter campaign

DUI party leader Ali Ahmeti met with SDSM leader Zoran Zaev today, shortly after meeting with VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski. DUI spokesman Bujar Osmani said that the latter meeting was held to see if DUI and SDSM can regain trust, after Zaev campaigned strongly against Ahmeti, in an attempt...
Macedonia 06.08.20 | 20:33

VMRO: Given Zaev’s constant assault on the press we consider his apology to Infomax to be insincere

VMRO-DPMNE said that the apology Zoran Zaev gave in the incident when he publicly attacked a critical media outlet is insincere and hypocritical. Zaev accused the Infomax news site, which often reports on corruption scandals involving him or his officials, of being partisan and politically driven. After...
Macedonia 06.08.20 | 19:42

Girl (14) was blackmailed and raped by a 25 year old man

Prosecutors have charged a 25 yera old man from the village of Debreste near Prilep, who blackmailed a 14 year old girl and sexually assaulted her several times. The man got into a social media communication with the girl, and then threatened to publish a picture she sent him unless she agrees to have...
Macedonia 06.08.20 | 19:38

After the explosion in Beirut, public demands the removal of chemicals from the abandoned OHIS plant in Skopje

The devastating blast in the port of Beirut drew the public attention to the old OHIS chemical plant in Skopje, which caused panic in November, when the emptying and cleaning of a rusting chemical tank emitted noxious fumes in the air. Methyl acrylate vapors found in the OHIS tank which burst last week Experts...
Macedonia 06.08.20 | 19:01

Mickoski and Ahmeti met to discuss a possible coalition

VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski met with the leader of the DUI party Ali Ahmeti today. The two party leaders met in the Parliament for about an hour to discuss forming a possible coalition following the inconclusive July 15 elections. VMRO-DPMNE and SDSM are essentially tied after the elections...
Macedonia 06.08.20 | 17:03

Zaev says he accepts some of the criticism after rudely defaming a critical news site

SDSM leader Zoran Zaev gave an apology of sorts to the Infomax news site, which he attacked during a recent press conference. Zaev refused to take questions from Infomax, declaring them a patisan outfit that never reports positively on “his Government”. Infomax editor in chief Aleksandar...
Macedonia 06.08.20 | 16:53

Recently broadened streets in the Mother Teresa complex flooded by the summer rains

During the coronavirus epidemic, the Healthcare Ministry made much of the fact that it reorganized the way traffic is conducted in the decrepit Mother Teresa clinic complex in Skopje – Macedonia’s largest and outdated healthcare institution. The notoriously clogged streets were broadened...
Macedonia 06.08.20 | 16:45

Spasovski meets Chinese Ambassador Zuo to discuss the epidemic and future cooperation

Chinese Ambassador to Macedonia Zhang Zuo met with the interim Prime Minister Oliver Spasovski to discuss the handling of the coronavirus pandemic. The Chinese Ambassador commended Macedonia for the way it is dealing with the crisis in both the medical and the economic field. Spasovski expressed gratitude...
Macedonia 06.08.20 | 16:39

No beach in August either – Greece will keep its border with Macedonia closed

Greece said that it will keep the border with Macedonia closed, for the rest of the summer season, effectively putting an end to any hopes that Macedonians will get to go to their preferred summer destination. The rest of the EU also keeps the borders closed to Macedonia, but one EU member, Bulgaria,...
Health 06.08.20 | 15:45

A 22-year-old patient and five others die, 113 new Covid-19 cases

There were 1,543 tests performed over the past 24 hours, with 113 confirmed COVID-19 cases, 259 patients have recovered, while 6 passed away, the Ministry of Health said on Thursday. New cases were reported in Skopje-35, Kumanovo-12, Stip-23, Prilep-1, Tetovo-5, Struga-1, Bitola-7, Ohrid-6, Gostivar-15,...
Macedonia 06.08.20 | 15:03

Zaev meets German Ambassador to Macedonia Holstein: We will secure new government with a four-year term

SDSM leader Zoran Zaev met Thursday with German Ambassador to Macedonia Anke Holstein and told her that his party has launched serious negotiations to secure stable parliamentary majority and form a new government, set to serve people’s best interests. He, the party said in a press release, stressed...
Economy 06.08.20 | 14:03

Exports drop 24% in January-June

According to the preliminary data of the State Statistical Office, the total value of exported goods from the Republic of Macedonia in the period January-June 2020 amounted to US$ 2,7 billion, a 24% decrease compared to the same period last year. The value of imported goods in the same period was US$...
Culture 06.08.20 | 13:11

Turkish classical music sibling act to perform at Ohrid Summer

As part of this year’s Ohrid Summer festival, Bulgarian-born Turkish brother-and-sister duo Özcan Ulucan (violin) and Birsen Ulucan (piano) will give a concert at Ohrid’s St. Sophia church at 9 pm. Birsen Ulucan was born in Shumen, Bulgaria and studied the piano from the age of seven. After her...
Macedonia 06.08.20 | 12:24

SDSM claims to have secured a majority to form a government

Sources from SDSM claim that they have secured a majority to form a government, writes “Fokus”. This SDSM reaction comes after the reports of “Lajm” and several other media outlets in Albanian language that DUI and VMRO-DPMNE are close to an agreement to form a new government...
Macedonia 06.08.20 | 12:10

365 caught without face masks

In the past 24 hours, 365 people were caught without personal protective equipment, i.e. face masks, the Ministry of Interior said on Thursday. The Ministry urges citizens to comply with the Government measures and protocols on protection against COVID-19, reads the press release.
Economy 06.08.20 | 12:07

Bislimoski: Electricity price could have been increased by 25%

Electricity price hikes will not trigger rise in the prices of other products, because 90% of the industrial and commercial consumers purchase electricity on the free market. It means that our decision isn’t affecting these consumers. No inflationary spiral can be caused and there will be no increase...
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