Tag: virus
Macedonia 16.04.20 | 12:35

Small groups of Christian faithful show up for the holy communion

Smaller groups of Christian faithful showed up before the churches this morning, to receive the holy communion ahead of the Easter holiday. Many wore masks and kept distance to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. The communion was mostly administered with a shared spoon, though. The churches will...
Macedonia 16.04.20 | 12:06

Kumanovo Mayor Dimitrievski tests postive a day after meeting top Government officials

Kumanovo Mayor Maksim Dimitrievski tested positive to the coronavirus. Yesterday Dimitrievski charied a meeting of the municipal crisis committee which was attended by Interim Prime Minister Oliver Spasovski, Healthcare Minister Venko Filipce and other top Government officials. I just received the results....
Macedonia 16.04.20 | 11:55

Greece will keep its borders closed for at least another month

The Greek Government ordered its borders closed for all foreign citizens until May 15. The ban applies to Macedonian citizens as well. The borders were closed am month ago, to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
Macedonia 16.04.20 | 11:49

Bitola doctors were left waiting for days to get the results of an inpatient who eventually came back Covid-19 positive

A doctor from Bitola’s general hospital accused Healthcare Minister Venko Filipce of keeping the hospital in the dark for days over the case of a Covid-19 patient. We waited to have the Covid-19 test results of an inpatient for four days. Now we find out that he was positive all this time. This...
Macedonia 16.04.20 | 10:14

Negotino sees its first Covid-19 cases

As Macedonia nears the number of 1.000 coronavirus patients, and Negotino became the latest city to have its first confirmed case. So far, 11 cities were affected by the disease, with most of the patients registered in the capital Skopje and in Kumanovo, with 339 and 262 cases respectively. Some of the...
Balkans 15.04.20 | 20:30

Macedonia’s coronavirus stimulus package second smallest in Europe

While Europe’s top economies like Germany and the United Kingdom, and Visegrad countries like Hungary and the Czech Republic, created serious stimulus packages that are a sizable portion of their GDP, Macedonia is intervening with one of the lowest packages in the continent. The SDSM led Government...
Macedonia 15.04.20 | 18:24

Family of a victim from Labunista shares video of the moment they were turned back at the Ohrid hospital

The family of a 59 year old man from Labunista near Struga who died of the coronavirus shared a video of the tense moment when he was denied admittance to the Ohrid general hospital. The family sought assistance a week ago, but were turned back as the hospital is not equipped to deal with coronavirus...
Macedonia 15.04.20 | 18:04

US donates masks and protective medical gear that were produced in Macedonia

US Ambassador to Macedonia Kate Byrnes met with Deputy Prime Minister Bujar Osmani and Healthcare Minister Venko Filipce at a ceremony to deliver a portion of the coronavirus aid. The material includes masks and protective medical gear which the Ambassador said were produced in a textile factory in Prilep. Pleased...
Macedonia 15.04.20 | 17:57

Nikoloski: Prilep was left without the assistance it needs to fight the coronavirus

VMRO-DPMNE Vice President Aleksandar Nikoloski accused the Government of failing to control the spike in coronavirus cases ijn Prilep, which along with Kumanovo and the Labuniste area of Struga, are currently the worst hit areas in Macedonia. The situation in Prilep is unfortunately not good. Testing...
Macedonia 14.04.20 | 13:39

Healthcare Ministry confirms: Six new Covid-19 deaths over the past 24 hours

The Healthcare Ministry confirmed media reports that six new patients died from the coronavirus over the past 24 hours. The reports was first made by Alsat TV. Four of them died in the Infectious Diseases Clinic in Skopje. The Ministry gave their age as over 60 and said that two of them were from Labunista,...
Balkans 14.04.20 | 11:36

Slovenia begins to reopen its economy

Slovenia begins reopening the country after weeks of mandatory closures due to the coronavirus. In the first stage, the country will allow the opening of several major factories and construction sites, as well as shops for car repair, electric appliances and building material. The companies will be required...
Macedonia 12.04.20 | 13:56

Number of coronavirus patients grows by 68, most new cases diagnosed in Skopje, Prilep, Kumanovo and Struga

The Healthcare Ministry informed that there are 68 newly diagnosed coronavirus cases in Macedonia, based on 404 tests. Most of the new cases were reported in Kumanovo (18), Skopje (15), Prilep (14) and Struga (10). The total has increased to 828 patients. There are 69 patients treated at the Infectious...
Macedonia 11.04.20 | 15:43

Two deaths, 49 newly infected patients over the past 24 hours

Two patients died from the coronavirus, the Healthcare Ministry informed today, and 49 tested positive to the virus. The two fatalities were reported in Prilep and Kumanovo. As for the newly diagnosed patients, 14 are from Kumanovo, 13 from Skopje and eight from Prilep, while Stip, Veles, Gostivar and...
Macedonia 10.04.20 | 15:26

Out of 496 tests – 48 newly diagnosed coronavirus cases

The Healthcare Ministry informed that out of 496 coronavirus tests conducted in the past 24 hours, there were 48 positive results, most of them in Kumanovo (25) and Skopje (11). This brings the total of confirmed cases in Macedonia to 711, with Skopje and Kumanovo leading the list with 284 and 168 cases. The...
Macedonia 10.04.20 | 11:14

Mickoski: I have no symptoms and continue to work from home

VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski said that he has no symptoms that would be linked to the coronavirus. “I’m in excellent physical condition”, Mickoski said after it was revealed that a journalist who recently interviewed both him and SDSM party leader Zoran Zaev, tested positive...
Macedonia 10.04.20 | 10:19

Long weekend curfew begins this afternoon

A long weekend curfew begins today at 16h, when all citizens in Macedonia will be ordered to remain in their homes until Monday at 5h. The public as busily stockpiling food and medicine for the weekend. So far only the city of Kumanovo, which had a major outbreak of the coronavirus, was forced through...
Macedonia 09.04.20 | 22:00

Boki 13 was in contact with a prisoner who died of Covid-19, his lawyer warns that the trial scheduled for tomorrow could prove deadly

Saso Dukoski, lawyer for Bojan Jovanovski – Boki 13, asked that the hearing in the major Racket trial planned for tomorrow is postponed because Boki 13 shared prison facilities with a prisoner who died of the coronavirus. The prisoner from Radovis died from apparent heart attack, but it was later...
Macedonia 09.04.20 | 21:38

Number of doctors and nurses infected with the coronavirus rises to 82

The Public Health Institute (IJZ) informs that 82 doctors and nurses were infected with the coronavirus so far in Macedonia. Many of the cases are linked to the Kumanovo hospital, and the Dermatology Clinic where director Nina Caca Biljanovska kept going to work after getting infected during a ski trip...
Macedonia 09.04.20 | 21:03

Levica condemns the Government for its “let them eat cake” press release

The far left Levica party blasted the Government for its incredibly tone deaf press release which sought to minimize the job losses caused by the coronavirus epidemic. In the press release, the Government called on the public not to pay too much attention to the reported job losses, adding that “a...
Economy 09.04.20 | 20:50

Owners of micro companies will also receive compensation, after being left out initially

The Government informed the public that it is correcting an omission in its decree to cover salaries of employees in companies that are hit by the coronavirus epidemic. The initial Government decree left out owners of companies, which prompted an angry reaction from micro-companies where the owner is...
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