Category: Health
Health 02.06.20 | 11:09

Institute of Public Health: A third of COVID-19 cases are asymptomatic

Up to one third of 89 COVID-19 cases confirmed on Monday involve people between the ages of 30 and 39, most of them women, according to the Institute of Public Health. Of the total number of coronavirus patients in the country, the largest percentage are over the age of 60 and the highest incidence is...
Health 29.05.20 | 16:34

Mass coronavirus testing of textile workers starts in Stip

The mass testing of textile workers from a plant in Stip, which is the latest coronavirus hotspot in Macedonia, started Thursday. Staffers from two other factories who took the same buses as the ones from where the infection spread are also being tested, as decided by the Commission for Infectious Diseases,...
Health 27.05.20 | 16:59

Four more textile workers in Stip test positive for COVID-19

Four new coronavirus cases among textile workers in Stip have been confirmed on Wednesday. The total number of workers positive for COVID-19 has risen to ten. The textile plant has been closed since Tuesday. Public health authorities said that six more COVID-19 swabs will be taken on Wednesday that are...
Health 25.05.20 | 17:07

Filipce: Coronavirus hasn’t disappeared, the situation is serious

In a Facebook post on Monday, Health Minister Venko Filipce expressed concern that despite the appeals of the health institutions to people not to hold mass gatherings, to observe measures for social distancing and movement restrictions, that didn’t happen during Sunday’s Ramadan celebrations in...
Health 22.05.20 | 20:49

Filipce: Kindergartens to open at onset of June, borders in mid-June

Health Minister Venko Filipce says the screening of kindergartens will end next week and the daycare institutions will open at the onset of June. Minister FIlipce told TV 24 that borders are expected to open in mid-June. Borders are expected to open in mid-June, this is a reasonable period for this...
Health 19.05.20 | 11:30

Filipce: Recovered COVID-19 patients can donate blood plasma to save lives

Health Minister Venko Filipce thanked Tuesday via a Facebook post recovered COVID-19 patients who have donated blood plasma to be used as therapy to treat other COVID-19 patients. I call on all people who can donate blood plasma to do so and save lives. Patients who have recovered from COVID-19 can donate...
Health 15.05.20 | 12:56

Filipce: Public Health Institute conducts WHO behavioural insights survey related to COVID-19

The Institute of Public Health is conducting a survey on behavioural insights on COVID-19 aimed at improving the measures taken in response to coronavirus pandemic, Health Minister Venko Filipce posted Friday on Facebook. Findings in the study, he said, will be used exclusively for scientific purposes...
Health 14.05.20 | 16:54

Filipce: Difficult to get air traffic back to normal

Health Minister Venko Filipce says it would obviously be very difficult to get air traffic back to normal. In terms of air transport, this is a legitimate dilemma. First, it depends on the policies to be pursued by airlines and states as regards airports. As things stand now, it would obviously be very...
Health 12.05.20 | 15:31

COVID-19 screening starts Wednesday, beginning with kindergarten staff

COVID-19 screening starts tomorrow, beginning with kindergarten staff, close to 2,000, in order to start preparing a protocol for the reopening of kindergartens, Health Minister Venko Filipce said Tuesday. PCR tests, he said, will be also used for the screening. PCR tests are helpful to identify asymptomatic...
Health 12.05.20 | 15:14

Filipce: Curfew remains in place

For now, there is no recommendation to the government to shorten curfew, however the possibility is not ruled out to discuss about this in the coming period given that it is recommended to gradually ease measures and companies to start operating, Health Minister Venko Filipce told Tuesday’s press briefing...
Health 12.05.20 | 12:24

Filipce thanks the nurses for their engagement in the fight against coronavirus

In a Facebook post on Tuesday, Health Minister Venko Filipce congratulated International Nurses Day and thanked the nurses for their engagement in the fight against coronavirus. The nurses are providing care to everyone in the world. In the past, their work has been ever more difficult. We thank them...
Health 11.05.20 | 17:36

Health Ministry warns of fake email scam

The Ministry of Health warned citizens Monday that coronavirus misinformation, sent from a fake email address, are circulating in Macedonia. The Interior Ministry’s Cybercrime and Digital Forensic Department has been notified and is working on the case. The Health Ministry’s official email address...
Health 07.05.20 | 20:38

Kindergarten staffers to be tested during mass coronavirus screening, experts still discussing how to organize activities

A working group of experts from the Committee for Infectious Diseases and the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy are discussing how activities at kindergartens will be organized. All kindergarten staffers will be tested as part of the mass coronavirus screening, set to be conducted starting next week,...
Health 05.05.20 | 18:00

Coronavirus screening tests to be conducted starting next week

Skopje’s Public Health Center and the Institute for Public Health are planing to carry out screening tests on coronavirus vulnerable categories of workers, such as healthcare professionals, kindergarten and nursing home staffers, Army members, police officers, bus and taxi drivers, etc, the Health...
Health 29.04.20 | 12:56

2,300 healthcare workers undergo COVID-19 training in past three weeks

2,300 healthcare professionals working at public heath institutions in Macedonia, have undergone in the past three weeks an interactive online training, as part of the Health Ministry’s “COVID 19 Response Training”. The training, developed by Project HOPE and the U.S-based Brown University, is...
Health 27.04.20 | 15:11

Clinic for Infectious Diseases gets UV Guard device to fight COVID-19, donation from Macedonian inventors

Clinic for Infectious Diseases got Monday UV Guard – device for disinfection of germs and viruses – aimed at strengthening the conditions in this healthcare institution where COVID-19 patients are treated. The device, which is an invention by Macedonian inventors Ivica Pockov and Nikola Gligorov,...
Health 27.04.20 | 14:15

Blood plasma treatment for COVID-19 patients to begin on Tuesday

The treatment of COVID-19 patients with blood plasma is to begin on Tuesday in Macedonia. Moreover, Skopje-based City General Hospital ‘8 September’ will start using ozone therapy to treat patients affected by COVID-19, Health Minister Venko Filipce announced Monday. Blood plasma will be taken from...
Health 24.04.20 | 11:42

Potential coronavirus drug has failed in its first test

An anti-viral drug has failed in its first randomized test, a setback for hopes to find ways to treat the new coronavirus, according to a report on Thursday. The Financial Times newspaper first reported on the draft study of the drug remdesivir, which was published accidentally by the World Health Organization...
Health 24.04.20 | 09:59

Filipce: Life won’t go back to normal, activities must be in line with measures

Life won’t go back to normal once restrictions are lifted and it will have to be organized differently. Preventive measures will remain in force until a coronavirus vaccine is developed, Health Minister Venko Filipce said Thursday in an interview with TV 24. Life won’t go back to what it was. Not...
Health 23.04.20 | 20:44

Dokic: The coronavirus will be present for a long time and masks will become a part of our everyday life

Pulmonologist Dejan Dokic said in an interview with TV Kanal 5 that the coronavirus would be present for a long time and that we would have to adjust to that. The virus will be present for a long time. And we have to be aware that we need to slow down the natural flow of the spread. Because at one point...
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