Tag: Tetovo
Macedonia 02.09.21 | 17:27

Tetovo police files charges against violations of Covid isolation orders

Tetovo police filed charges againts local citizens who violated orders to self-isolate because of Covid. Nine people from the city and villages between Tetovo and Gostivar were charged when police patrols did not find them in their homes, despite the isolation order. These two cities in the Polog Valley...

Macedonia 27.08.21 | 14:11

High schools in Tetovo and Gostivar will remain closed at the start of the school year

High schools in Tetovo and Gostivar will start the school year holding only online classes. The Polog Valley region is hit especially bad by the current wave of the epidemic, due to the large number of mainly ethnic Albanian emigrants who came there from Western Europe during the summer. Tetovo Mayor...

Macedonia 27.08.21 | 09:31

Cities in the West of Macedonia continue to be hardest hit by the current corona wave

Cities in Western parts of Macedonia who hosted tens of thousands of majority Albanian emigrants during the summer continue to be worst hit in the on-going wave of the illness. Tetovo and Gostivar had 87 and 72 new cases diagnosed over the past day, and six and five of the newly reported deaths. Three...

Macedonia 26.08.21 | 18:43

Tetovo Crisis HQ requests Education Ministry to start school year with online classes

The Crisis Headquarters of the Municipality of Tetovo after a long break held a session today which, due to the serious epidemiological situation in the Municipality, requested the Ministry of Education and Science  to start the school year with online classes instead of in-person classes. Given the...

Macedonia 25.08.21 | 13:34

Six patients died of Covid in Tetovo, including a 21 year old

Gzim Nuredini, the Covid coordinator for Tetovo, said that the city lost six patients over the past 24 hours, including a 21 year old man. The city is especially badly hit by the epidemic, which was spread during the summer months because of the mass arrival of emigrants from all over Europe –...

Macedonia 15.08.21 | 17:07

Large influx of Covid-19 patients in Tetovo, additional measures could be enforced in the area

The Ministry of Health said Sunday there has been a large influx of patients in the Tetovo hospital over the past 24 hours and efforts are made to provide care for all of them. Additional measures could be enforced in the area. Appropriate support is provided in terms of staff and accommodation capacities....

Macedonia 07.08.21 | 12:16

Coronavirus situation in Tetovo extremely serious, Filipce demands ban on indoor weddings

The situation in Tetovo is extremely serious and the new coronavirus wave has already arrived, and that was to be expected because the situation is similar everywhere in the region. The Minister of Health, Venko Filipce, discussed Saturday the epidemiological situation in Tetovo with members of the...

Macedonia 27.07.21 | 22:30

Tetovo: Fully vaccinated patient with prior illnesses died of Covid-19

A 62 year old man from Tetovo died of Covid-19 after being fully vaccinated with the Sinopharm vaccine. Local hospital manager Gzim Nuredini said that the man suffered from several prior illnesses, including kidney deficiency and high blood pressure, and likely did not develop sufficient immunity even...

Macedonia 24.07.21 | 22:10

Local elections: Zaev expects that BESA will join him and DUI in a coalition

Zoran Zaev said that he expects his small coalition partner BESA to become part of his coalition for the local elections, with his SDSM party and with DUI. BESA threatened the very survival of Zaev’s Government as it is trying to challenge DUI for the mayoral position in Tetovo. Zaev said that SDSM...

Macedonia 19.07.21 | 10:40

Infectious Diseases Commission to decide on restrictions following rising number of infections after wedding celebrations in Tetovo

The Commission for Infectious Diseases will decide Monday whether certain restrictions will be introduced for parties indoors following the rising number of new infections after weddings and family celebrations in Tetovo. The Commission will also consider the possibility of intensified border controls,...

Macedonia 14.07.21 | 15:52

Daily corona report: 18 newly diagnosed cases, Tetovo and Skopje have the most active cases  

There are 18 new Covid-19 cases diagnosed over the past day, the Healthcare Ministry informed. The cases were found after a total of 2.798 tests. There were no deaths reported. The number of active cases increased slightly, to 207. Of them, Skopje and Tetovo have 74 and 70 cases, respectively. Given...

Macedonia 14.07.21 | 10:45

Patients from the Tetovo cluster are refusing to cooperate in identifying other potential cases

While overall the coronavirus infection rate is currently very low in Macedonia, the number of cases reported by the Healthcare Ministry each day, and the number of total active cases, have been growing lately to about two dozen/200. This increase is largely driven by a small outbreak in Tetovo, which...

Macedonia 11.07.21 | 12:24

Nine dancers arrested in a night club in Tetovo in a prostitution raid

Nine dancers were arrested in a night club near Tetovo, where they were likely engaging in prostitution.  Four were Macedonian citizens, three are from Russia and one each from Albania and Ukraine, aged between 22 and 44.

Macedonia 10.07.21 | 09:12

Mourners at the Christian graveyard in Tetovo are “welcomed” by piles of garbage and packs of wild dogs

Tetovo is a notoriously dirty city but the scenes seen in the midst of the summer heatwave these past days are horrific even for those used to the city. In one instance, local citizens and businesses have begun throwing garbage at a site near the city’s Christian graveyards, and the place is now...

Macedonia 05.07.21 | 22:27

Sajkoski: The people in Tetovo are dissatisfied with SDSM

VMRO-DPMNE Secretary General Georgija Sajkoski met with party supporters in Tetovo and Brvenica today, in the run up to the municipal elections. The citizens are disappointed with the empty promises they got from SDSM, when they were promised a European Macedonia and a society for all. SDSM promised...

Macedonia 28.06.21 | 12:44

A woman from Tetovo can’t get monolingual documents because “Macedonians are below 20% in Tetovo” she was told

The Registry Office in Tetovo persistently refused to issue a woman from Tetovo documents only in Macedonian language. She received bilingual documents in Tetovo, in Macedonian and Albanian. In the regional department, her complaint was rejected, after which she was forced to go to Skopje, where she...

Macedonia Sport 18.05.21 | 13:51

Albanian nationalist fans loudly celebrate Shkendija’s title in Tetovo

The Shkendija football club fans staged a major celebration in Tetovo yesterday after their team won the league title. Shkendija is supported by the nationalist Albanian Ballisti group, which styles itself after the World War Two Nazi aligned Albanian movement. The victory was hijacked by the DUI...

Macedonia 10.05.21 | 21:50

VMRO representatives meet with villagers from Tetovo and Prilep

VMRO-DPMNE members of Parliament began their announced series of meetings with citizens from smaller towns and villages across the country. Aleksandar Veljanovski was in the villages of Jegunovce, Preljubista and Podbregje, near Tetovo, where the citizens cited problems with unregulated dumping sites...

Macedonia 25.04.21 | 08:19

Police has been putting pressure on football fans from Tetovo not to come to the protest

The Vojvodi fan group from Tetovo informed that its members are under police pressure not to attend the protest planned for Sunday in Skopje. Protestes are demanding the release of the political prisoners kept by the Zaev regime. All forms of pressure, warnings and interrogations by the police carried...

Macedonia 22.04.21 | 12:27

Corona field hospital in Tetovo has not been put in service due to lack of water in the city

An improvised field hospital set up in Tetovo to help treat coronavirus patients still has not been put in service because of the lack of water in the city. Tetovo is undergoing water cuts for parts of the day after a reservoir built on Mount Shara was damaged. This has prevented the necessary tests...

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