14 January 2022
On the eve of the Australian Open tennis tournament, it became evident that some of the tennis players vaccinated with two doses of Sputnik vaccine, from the Russian manufacturer Gamaleya Research Institute, will not be able to participate in the tournament, because this vaccine is not approved in Australia, writes Truthmeter.mk Meta.mk republishes this fact-checking […]
4 December 2021
The mandatory vaccination of the health workers and the public administration workers in North Macedonia is something that will not be implemented for the time being, because we reached a conclusion that it will open serious issues regarding how someone that opposes the vaccination process will be sanctioned, Health Minister of North Macedonia, Venko Filipche, […]
20 November 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has a serious impact on young people’s mental health. Even though in the start the move to online learning seemed harmless, yet the long period with lack of socializing is taking its toll. Two and half months since the start of the school year with physical attendance, Meta.mk spoke with school psychologists […]
17 November 2021
In North Macedonia, all the pubic sector employees i.e. the central administration employees, the employees of the local self-government units, all the state institutions, will have to come to work with a certificate for at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine or with a negative PCR-test results, done at their expense. If they don’t […]
10 November 2021
We have been witnessing an increase of the new COVID-19 cases in the last two weeks. The percentage of the new cases last week rose by 25% in comparison with the week before. The R0, the contagiousness factor, is also increasing, which is an indicator that there will be a shift from the stable epidemiological […]
3 November 2021
In the past two days, a total of 9 009 vaccines were administered in North Macedonia. Out of the total, 1 873 were a first dose, 1 580 were administered as a second dose and 5.536 citizens got the third dose. By the 2nd of November, total of 806 781 citizens of North Macedonia were […]
26 October 2021
Since the beginning of the pandemic, over 200 000 cases of COVID-19 were diagnosed in North Macedonia. The statistics of the Ministry of Health for the last 24 hours shows over 500 new cases. The 3 622 conducted tests in the last 24 hours discovered 511 new cases, most of them from Skopje – 247, […]
22 October 2021
The Health Ministry of North Macedonia informed yesterday afternoon that since the start of the current pandemic, 7 021 people died form COVID-19 in the country. In the previous 24 hours, 11 new COVID-deaths were registered, including a 35-year old patient from the city of Prilep. However, in the same time period three previous COVID-19 […]
13 October 2021
Meta.mk under the cooperation agreement with Truthmeter.mk republishes its debunking of disinformation spread among the Facebook users in North Macedonia: Both unvaccinated and vaccinated people can become infected and transmit the virus, although the difference in the outcome of the disease can be very different for the two groups. However, the greatest risk of transmission […]
11 October 2021
Meta.mk under the cooperation agreement with Truthmeter.mk republishes its debunking of disinformation spread among the Facebook users in North Macedonia: The PCR test is just a simple plastic swab with a cotton ball on top, which is used to collect samples from the nose and throat and then process them in a laboratory. It does […]
27 September 2021
The Health Ministry of North Macedonia informs that starting from today, the medical workers will be inoculated with the third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, as well as people over the age of 60 and the immunocompromised people. The third dose is administered at least 6 months after the administration of the second dose. During […]
23 September 2021
The latest COVID-19 statistics in North Macedonia tell about 491 new diagnosed cases from 3.747 tests performed. As a result of the disease, 16 people died, informs the Ministry of Health in its latest regular press release. Nevertheless, there are 6 more deceased persons reported, who died last week. With this, the total number of […]
1 September 2021
The Ministry of Health of North Macedonia informs that a 15-year-old girl from the village of Selce, in the Tetovo region, died today at the Clinic for Infectious Diseases in the capital Skopje. “The patient was brought to the Infectious Diseases Clinic with a very serious manifestation of the infection, 13 days after the symptoms […]
1 September 2021
From today, anybody – be it a foreigner or a national – wanting to enter or exit North Macedonia at any border crossing, will have to show a vaccination certificate against COVID-19, with two doses of the vaccine administered or COVID-19 recovery certificate for the past 45 days or a medical certificate with a negative […]
31 August 2021
It is crucial to conduct an analysis and find out why the number of deaths from COVID-19 is high in North Macedonia. We have been dealing with the pandemic for a year and a half, but the number of deaths is still high, says epidemiologist and former director of the Public Health Center Skopje, Dr. […]
26 August 2021
It’s a risk to start the new school year with physical attendance since there are a lot of people who weren’t vaccinated, said Dr. Nikola Panovski. He considers that if a more serious issue happens to one child chaos will ensue in North Macedonia since the situation is very sensitive. According to him, a blended […]
13 August 2021
At the doctor’s surgery “Mediko Marija” every day there are patients who are complaining of issues typical for stomach viruses, but later it proves to be COVID-19, says Dr. Vesna Stojanova – Atanasovska, a general medicine doctor. According to her findings in the last period, more and more children and teenagers are complaining about issues […]
9 August 2021
The vaccine is protecting against COVID-19 and life is easier with it. Last summer we didn’t have any vaccines, and now when we do have them, there isn’t much interest in them. What is very important now is that people should get vaccinated, including the children older than 12, says Dr. Aleksandar Stojanov, an epidemiologist […]
4 August 2021
The Ministry of Health informs that at the vaccination stations and with the filed outreach vaccination in North Macedonia as of yesterday, 519 106 people were vaccinated. The first dose of vaccine against COVID-19 was given to 3 909 citizens yesterday and a total of 12 939 citizens were vaccinated. In the country, thus far, […]
4 August 2021
The Health Ministry of North Macedonia informs that in the past 24 hours, from the 5 276 conducted tests, 164 new cases of COVID-19 were discovered. This number is more than four times bigger than the one from yesterday (37), and more than three times more than the day before (54) The highest number of […]
