Tag: coronavirus

The Health Ministry of North Macedonia informs that in the past 24 hours, 136 new cases of COVID-19 infections were registered and 1.208 tests were conducted. New cases were reported in Skopje - 80 and Tetovo - 24. Kumanovo reported 6, Prilep and Veles reported 3 each, Ohrid -5, Gostivar and Resen - 4, while Strumica, Stip, Kriva Palanka,...

The Interim Prime Minister Oliver Spasovski announced on his Facebook page that the Government has decided, starting from Friday, 26th of June, to open all border crossings for all passengers and vehicles, without the obligation to present any PCR tests for anyone entering the country and without referrals for home isolation or mandatory state quarantine. The ban on organized...

In the past 24 hours, 118 new COVID-19 cases were registered and 1.363 tests were conducted, informs the Health Ministry of North Macedonia. New cases were reported in Skopje (55), Kumanovo (9), Tetovo (20) while in Gevgelija, Debar, Bitola, Shtip, Sveti Nikole and Kichevo, each has 1 patient registered, Gostivar (4) and Resen (5). The Institute for Public Health registered...

The claim that North Macedonia has the highest death rate in the region is not correct. I know that North Macedonia is among the countries that are most transparent in sharing national numbers and statistics, said Jihane Tawilah, a representative of the World Health Organization in Macedonia for the Telma TV's show "Code". "We should be very careful when we...

I ask for strong support from the citizens for the health workers, I ask for understanding and patience about the cancelation of the regular medical interventions. We are expecting the number of patients at hospitals to surpass the number of the patients who recover this week, but we have a plan on how to manage that. When this period...

With the end of the state of emergency, several government orders that prevented the price rise of basic food products, southern fruits, and protective equipment will expire. These were adopted to prevent manipulations in the trade when the coronavirus occurred. The Ministry of Economy informs the retail traders and wholesale traders that with the end of the state of emergency...

During today's press conference, North Macedonia's Health Minister Venko Filipche announced that the names of the people who ought to be in self-isolation, but refuse to do so, will be revealed to the public. Presumably, the names will be published on the web site of the Ministry of Health. „A list of the people that ought be in self-isolation will...

The Ministry of Interior (MoI) of North Macedonia informs that after two of the personnel in one of the cafeterias in the MoI complex tested positive to the coronavirus, the Institute for Public Health conducted epidemiological interviews with 67 employees and all of the offices in the building were disinfected. "According to the report that we received from the epidemiological...

Almost everyone at this point agrees that the pandemic has dramatically altered our lives forever - for bad in many cases; but the isolation, the fact that we still cannot enjoy and tend to the most common habits that we mostly took for granted before, has made us think thoroughly about our position and how vulnerable the humans can...

We have new clusters and unfortunately, I have to state that people have failed to comply with the protective measures. Despite the ban, people organize mass gatherings and that is absolutely devoid of logic. We have citizens that are gathering even though it is banned. Weddings cannot be held when they are banned. Citizens cannot gather since it is...

The Government has three conditions under which it will fully subsidize the social security contributions for the employees at various media outlets, television, radio broadcasters, printed media, and Internet portals. This was stressed at today's press conference by the Deputy Vice Prime Minister for European Affairs Bujar Osmani and the Minister for Communications, Accountability, and Transparency, Robert Popovski. The first condition...

The Health Ministry informs that in the past 24 hours, 971 tests were conducted and 175 new COVID-19 cases were registered. In the capital there are 131 new cases; in Kumanovo 24; Štip, Struga, Gostivar, Prilep, and Sveti Nikole each have 2 new cases, Tetovo has 5, Veles - 4 and Ohrid has 1 new case. The Public Health Institute...

During today's session, the Government adopted a Decree with which it tasked the Ministry of Interior (MoI) in a period of one day after the decree enters into force, to submit to the State Election Commission (SEC) a list of citizens that have applied for issuing a new ID card or passport, and have collected them starting from the...

The Ministry of Health of North Macedonia informed that in the past 24 hours, 1085 COVID-19 tests were conducted, which diagnosed 125 new patients with the disease. The new cases count is highest in Skopje, with 46 cases; next is Kumanovo with 19 new cases, followed by Shtip (17), Tetovo (16), Struga (7), Gostivar (6), Ohrid (5), Veles (3), Negotino...

The Director-General of the Civil Aviation Agency, Tomislav Tuntev, said that it shouldn't be expected the airports in North Macedonia to be opened before the 15th of June. At the moment the number of flights compared to last year is just 7 to 10%, and these include military flights, special medical, state and humanitarian flights and repatriation flights for...

The Ministry of Interior (MoI) of North Macedonia continues with the enforcement of the Government order for obligatory wearing face masks and of the curfew which started Thursday evening in some cities, including the capital Skopje, and yesterday it registered 203 offenders who neglected the curfew, out or whom 155 were arrested. Also yesterday, there were 481 violations of the...

In the first three months of this years, the total foreign investments amount to €137.7 million, which is significant rise over the same quarter of 2019, when the foreign companies invested €48.5 million, the Central Bank of North Macedonia data shows. It is interesting that the biggest part of these investments, €108 million, was made in March, when the COVID-19...

All is quiet between the walls of the Infectious Diseases and Febrile Conditions Clinic in Skopje. It is nicely lit, the surfaces are disinfected and clean, there is no noise nor swarm of people. At first glance, nothing tells that this is the look of the front line in the battle against the invisible enemy that conquered the world and...

Ignoring the virus and denying its existence won't help anyone. Those that behave responsibly and are abiding by the measures, should serve as an example to others. The restrictions are undesirable and we will be able to avoid them only if we behave in a disciplined manner, said the Health Minister Venko Filipche during today's press conference when he...

If the number of people infected with COVID-19 continues to rise, Shtip together with Skopje and Tetovo will highly likely be put under lockdown, just as city of Debar was. This was announced during a press conference by the State Secretary at the Health Ministry, Vladimir Miloshev. Taking into account the extended weekend, with Friday being a non-working day, these...