Tag: Venko Filipce
Macedonia 29.03.21 | 15:51

Filipce: Vaccination process starts on Wednesday

Macedonia’s medicine agency is set to finalize on Monday administrative processes regarding permits for the AstraZeneca vaccines that arrived recently, after which shots will be distributed nationwide and on Wednesday the immunization process will officially kick off, Minister of Health Venko FIlipce...

Macedonia 25.03.21 | 22:07

Filipce: No minister, official or director has been vaccinated against Covid-19

Health Minister Venko Filipce denies that senior government officials were vaccinated against Covid-19. Not a single official, not a single minister in the Government, not a single director has been vaccinated, he said on Thursday. He explained that the National Immunization Strategy is based on world...

Macedonia 24.03.21 | 15:43

Instead of vaccines, Filipce promotes applications

Minister Venko Filipce promoted Wednesday on Facebook the “HealthBuddy” application which according to him provides information based exclusively on evidence and helps to expose myths and false claims about the virus. This sparked backlash from the people who criticize him that instead of...

Macedonia 21.03.21 | 18:13

Filipce: Coronavirus curfew remains in force, additional restrictions possible

The nationwide 10 pm – 5 am curfew imposed in Macedonia is set to remain in force, but if the situation worsens, additional restrictions are possible, said the Minister of Health Venko Filipce. He told TV Sitel that the previous two-week curfew helped stabilize the situation, and that he exact...

Macedonia 20.03.21 | 15:30

Filipce: Vaccination of the population will launch with the AstraZeneca or the Chinese vaccine

Mass vaccination of the population will launch with the AstraZeneca or the Chinese vaccine and the start date will be announced once we’re sure that jabs are en route to Macedonia, Health Minister Venko FIlipce told reporters on Saturday during a visit to the Kocani General Hospital. We communicate...

Macedonia 19.03.21 | 15:52

Filipce says Pfizer sent additional request for the vaccine agreement

Three days ago we received an additional request from the “Pfizer” company regarding the agreement, Health Minister Venko Filipce said Friday. According to him, the procedure was delayed precisely because of such conditions from this company, and the last one refers to the responsibility...

Macedonia 19.03.21 | 09:26

Every day spent with Venko Filipce as minister costs human lives

Due to the incapacity of Venko Filipce, Macedonia sees a huge number of new Covid-19 cases every day, over 3,400 citizens have died so far, patients are leaving hospitals lacking organs, and there are no vaccines, said VMRO-DPMNE. The party says that the scandals of Venko Filipce seem to never end. Filipce’s...

Macedonia 18.03.21 | 11:48

SDSM gov’t with the largest number of no confidence motions against gov’t officials: After Dimitrov, Maricic, Nikolovski and Filipce are next

After numerous criminal affairs and scandals that have been reported by the media in recent weeks involving senior government officials, the government is slowly but surely starting to collapse. After the three no confidence motions against Deputy Prime Minister in charge of European Affairs Nikola Dimitrov,...

Macedonia 17.03.21 | 15:15

Waiting for vaccines since January, now Filipce says people will have to wait until the first week of April

Venko Filipce came out at another press conference and of course only to say that there is a delay in the vaccination process, VMRO-DPMNE reacted following Wednesday’s press conference of Minister Filipce, who announced that the mass vaccination would begin in April. According to Filipce, the vaccines...

Macedonia 17.03.21 | 13:27

Filipce says he has no problem getting AstraZeneca jab

The Minister of Health Venko Filipce said Wednesday that he has no problem getting AstraZeneca jab and claims that safe vaccines will be imported in the country. Many countries have expressed reservations regarding the AstraZeneca vaccine, and some have halted its use. Regarding AstraZeneca vaccine as...

Macedonia 17.03.21 | 13:02

Filipce: I am aware that the procurement of vaccines is not going according to plan

Macedonia is still waiting for the vaccines from China and through the COVAX program, and the authorities are aware that the delivery is late, which leads to revolt among the citizens. At Wednesday’s press conference, the Minister of Health, Venko Filipce, assured that the vaccines will arrive...

Macedonia 17.03.21 | 11:53

No new restrictions will be introduced

The existing measure will not be supplemented and no further restrictions will be introduced. We are monitoring the situation and if necessary the existing measure will be supplemented. For now, according to the analysis, there is no such need. Current restrictions will yield results in 4-5 days, Health...

Macedonia 16.03.21 | 14:13

VMRO-DPMNE to file no-confidence motion against Filipce

3,340 Covid deaths or the biggest human catastrophe since the Second World War in the country, 3,340 reasons for Venko Filipce to resign. There is no Macedonian family which hasn’t lost a close relative or a friend. These lives could have been saved if the system worked,VMRO-DPMNE MP, Kiril Pecakov...

Macedonia 15.03.21 | 15:19

Mickovski on the vaccine procurement: It’s simple, those who rule criminally, they will run every process criminally

I am following the press of the Croatian National coronavirus crisis team. They are sitting and talking for an hour, all kinds of questions are asked by reporters and answered thoroughly. There is no justification, no escape from responsibility, they admit that they were wrong to invest in AstraZeneca,...

Macedonia 15.03.21 | 14:16

Lefkov urges Anti-Corruption Commission to open a case into Filipce and the Chinese vaccine purchase at $62.5 through Hong Kong shell company

Today we are submitting to Anti-Corruption Commission complete documentation, published in the media, which shows that Venko Filipce authorized a shell company to negotiate on behalf of Macedonia with the Chinese “Sinofarm” for the purchase of 200,000 vaccines, at a price of 62.5 dollars...

Macedonia 12.03.21 | 22:53

Filipce: We are monitoring reports on AstraZeneca vaccine and based on that we build our recommendations

The health authorities are closely monitoring reports coming from other countries over the AstraZeneca vaccine, which Macedonia is set to receive through the COVAX program, said Health Minister Venko Filipce. We closely follow the reports coming from other countries. We closely follow the recommendations...

Macedonia 09.03.21 | 19:23

We called Todorov Minister of Death, what do we call Filipce today for the woman who suffered medical malpractice?!

We called Todorov Minister of Death for Tamara. Today he is a respected collaborator of our authorities and serves to create internal discord in the opposition. What do we call Filipce today for the woman who suffered medical malpractice and had several organs removed and for which no one will be held...

Macedonia 09.03.21 | 17:02

Filipce announced a five percent salary increase for all public healthcare workers

Health Minister Venko Filipce announced on Tuesday a five percent salary increase for all healthcare workers in public healthcare sector. Filipce told Slobodna TV’s Morning Briefing show said that both medical and non-medical staff in health facilities will get an increase in their salaries. What...

Macedonia 08.03.21 | 17:18

Was Filipce’s grandfather in Zanzibar with the patients infected with the African variant of the coronavirus and was he placed in quarantine?

VMRO-DPMNE asks whether Dr. Jordanco Saveski, the grandfather of the Minister of Health, Venko Filipce, was in Zanzibar together with the patients infected with the African variant of the coronavirus mutation and whether after returning from Africa, Dr. Saveski was placed in quarantine. Venko Filipce...

Macedonia 08.03.21 | 16:47

Enough available beds in Skopje Covid centers, said Filipce

In Skopje as a whole there is a sufficient number of available beds in the area of internal clinics, there is room in the “8 September” hospital and one or two wards can be repurposed with a total of 50 additional beds,  Minister of Health, Venko Filipce said Monday. He added that in Skopje...

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