Healthcare Minister Venko Filipce said that the Government will recommend to the private sector to make vaccines mandatory for all employees. The Government is considering whether to impose vaccines on public sector employees, or force them to take out costly PCR tests every few days.

We will discuss the request to have the costs of the tests funded by the Government, Filipce said.

He warned that recent scans showed that there are currently no delta variant cases in Macedonia. According to Filipce, this is bad news because it means that the variant, which is spotted across the region, will eventually spill over into Macedonia and add to the already growing number of new cases.