Tag: panovski
Macedonia 28.01.22 | 10:49

Doctor Panovski: If the world had the Covid death rate of Macedonia, there would be 5.5 million more deaths

Macedonia has six times the Covid mortality of the global average, said microbiologist Naum Panovski. If our rate was applied globally, we would see 5.5 million additional deaths. The pandemic is not that dangerous, unless you’re in Macedonia, Panovski said during a TV interview.  
Macedonia 20.12.21 | 21:02

Doctor Panovski calls on the Government to impose corona tests on the border

Microbiologist Nikola Panovski called on the Government to impose restrictions on the border to prevent the spread of the new omicron strain of the coronavirus. Panovski pointed to how Greece imposed virus tests on the border and sys that Macedonia must do the same. If you ask me, I would introduce a...
Macedonia 14.12.21 | 14:53

Call to move schools to online teaching to slow the spread of the omicron variant

Microbiologist Nikola Panovski calls on the Government to introduce two weeks of mandatory online schooling, to prevent the spread of the new omicron variant of the coronavirus. According to Panovski, public transportation should also be reduced in this period, around the Christmas holiday, all with...
Macedonia 31.08.21 | 19:36

Doctor Panovski: Schools will probably have to switch back to online classes in a few weeks

Microbiologist Nikola Panovski warns that having all children attend in-person classes is not sustainable with the current rate of coronavirus infections. Macedonia is undergoing a major new wave in the epidemic, but still the Government insists that most children begin classes in person, starting tomorrow. I’m...
Macedonia 24.08.21 | 12:32

Doctor Panovski urges the Government to drop its plan for fully in-person start of the school year

Microbiologist Nikola Panovski called on the Zaev Government to drop its plan to begin the school year with full in-person teaching. Despite the fast rising number of deaths and infections, the Government currently insists that the school year will begin in-person for nearly all children and in all schools,...
Macedonia 19.08.21 | 21:47

Zaev criticized for grossly misrepresenting Covid-19 data

In his attempt to assure vaccine skeptics, Zoran Zaev made a major math blunder this evening. During a TV interview he was assuring the public that only 10 percent of the 7,700 active cases were vaccinated, and insisted that it amounts to 77 people – not the correct 770 people. Zaev also pushed...
Macedonia 06.07.21 | 16:51

Doctor Panovski: Macedonia needs to introduce reciprocal border checks against countries like Greece and Bulgaria

It makes no sense that Macedonia allows visitors from countries like Greece and Bulgaria, who have far higher infection rates than Macedonia and have the delta variant of the coronavirus, says microbiologist Nikola Panovski. Both these countries require proof of vaccination or PCR tests from Macedonian...
Macedonia 26.05.21 | 22:40

Doctor Panovski: We could’ve saved at least a 1,000 lives with faster vaccination

Microbiologist Nikola Panovski, who is one of the most trusted voices in Macedonia during the epidemic, estimates that we lost at least a 1,000 lives due to the late start in vaccinations. The Zaev regime initially refused to even seek Chinese and Russian made vaccines, and only began to seek them out...
Macedonia 08.02.21 | 10:08

Panovski: Hold the census in the open, start with those who already had the coronavirus

Doctor Nikola Panovski urged the Zaev regime, which insists on holding a census this spring, to have it performed in the open – in the yards of houses, or in balconies of apartment buildings. Panovski warned that the process will be dangerous and should begin with the citizens who already had the...
Macedonia 13.11.20 | 13:24

Prosecutors open investigation into parallel import of drugs, police searches drug wholesaler “Panovski”

Police inspectors from the Department for Fight against Organized Crime and Corruption of the Ministry of Interior were conducting searches in the drug wholesaler “Panovski” this morning, “Telma” has learned. The investigation led by the Prosecutor’s Office for Prosecution...
Macedonia 09.06.20 | 11:07

Doctor Panovski: The corona committee was led by politics while making its recommendations

Microbiologist Nikola Panovski joined in the criticism of the Committee on infectious diseases for its politization of the response to the coronavirus epidemic. The Committee proposed that restrictions are relaxed two weeks ago, as the ruling SDSM party was pushing for elections to take place as soon...
Macedonia 29.05.20 | 15:40

Panovski: Restrictions were relaxed for political reasons and now we suffer the consequences

Doctor Nikola Panovski called on the Government to urgently reverse its decision to relax the measures put in place to fight the coronavirus. After three dismal days, with high numbers of newly infected patients and fatalities, Panovski said that it is clear the decision was made with a political agenda...
Macedonia 28.05.20 | 19:23

Doctor Panovski: The curfew was lifted for political reasons, with the elections in mind

Microbiologist Nikola Panovski repeated his call for a curfew that would cover the worst affected parts of Skopje – municipalities such as Cair, Saraj, Gazi Baba and Butel. According to Panovski, the lifting of the evening curfew was done rashly and with political considerations in mind –...
Macedonia 26.05.20 | 22:29

Experts divided on the Government decision to end the curfew, as parts of Skopje remain high risk areas

Doctor Nikola Panovski came out strongly against the Government decision to end the curfew throughout the whole of Macedonia. The microbiology expert pointed to the fact that parts of the country, like the large Saraj district west of Skopje, have numbers worse than Debar did at the start of the epidemic,...
Macedonia 31.12.18 | 15:37

Pucko Petrol got nearly twice as many public contracts in 2018 than it did in 2017

Pucko Petrol, a gasoline trading company whose owner Ismail Jahoski comes from the ruling the DUI party, cashed in on 28 million EUR in public procurement contracts in 2018, nearly twice as much as it got in 2017. Makfax tried to put together a list of companies which win the most money in procurement...

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