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Total number of infected people with coronavirus in Macedonia is 13
Four new people were diagnosed with the coronavirus and the total number of people infected is 13, informed Health Minister Venko Filipche. All four are form the region of Debar and are connected to the couple who were diagnosed on the 6th of March upon their arrival from Italy. The woman is in a critical condition and she might...
Additional preventive measures against corona virus introduced including a school break until the 25th of March for all schools, kindergartens, and universities in Macedonia
This morning the Commission of Infectious Diseases had a meeting during which additional measures were proposed against the coronavirus especially after the first case of local transmission when three people that had a contact with the people from Debar were positive, informs the Health Minister Venko Filipche.
-At the moment, there are seven patients hospitalized at the clinic to...
14 days closure for all Macedonian schools, kindergartens, and universities
After the meeting with Health Minister Filipche, the Commission for Infectious Diseases proposes all schools, kindergartens, and universities be closed in the next two weeks. He will submit this proposal at the Government which will make a decision during the day.
"The Commission for Infectious Diseases is introducing new preventive measures and is instructing all primary, secondary schools and...
64 employees at the University Clinic of Dermatology in Skopje were put into isolation while the clinic’s director will be dismissed after the elections
Even though we implemented all of the measures, what we faced with today is something that disappointing us. Measures will be taken against the University of director of the University Clinic of Dermatology to be dismissed from her position which will happen after after the elections, informed the Healthcare Minister Venko Filipche. He announced that the clinic will be...
The Bahamas and the Bermudas are again among Macedonia’s biggest foreign investors
The exotic Caribbean islands are on the list of five biggest foreign investor in Macedonia during last year shows the data provided by the National Bank.
The top ranked country is Turkey which last year invested 52.4 million euros and the second ranked are the Bahamas with invested 45.6 million euros.
The thirdly ranked is Germany with investments in the amount...
First case of corona virus infection in Macedonia detected and the authorities claim they are ready and there is no room for panic
A 50 year old woman from Skopje s the first registered case of a patient infected with a corona virus in Macedonia, confirmed the Health Minister Venko Filipche. He assured that there is no room for panic among the population. The woman stayed in Italy for a month.
-The patient is quarantined at the Clinic for Infectious Diseases in...
Austrian construction company Starbag will be building the second phase of the express road between Štip and Radoviš
The Public Enterprise for State Roads has finished the procedure for selecting the contractor for the second phase of the building the express road between Stip and Radovis with the length of 16.9 km. The Austrian construction company Starbag was selected as the most convenient offerer with an offer of 14.9 million euros.
-it is expected that soon a...
Secondary school students in Macedonia demand hygiene assets in schools
Everyone warns that diseases result from not washing hands, and no one cares that we have no soup in schools where we spend 8 hours a day. This is a reaction of one of the secondary school students that have began a campaign through the Union of Secondary school Students called #nosoup or #expensive soup and they are publishing...
Macedonian opposition party leader Hristijan Mickoski promises flights to USA and a highway to Bitola
The highway from Veles to Bitola, an express road from Kumanovo to Kriva Palanka, Bitola to Medzitlija, an express road from Strumica to the border with Bulgaria are just part of the pre-election promises by the opposition party VMRO-DPMNE that were presented today by its President Hristijan Mickoski. Just like all previous elections, the politicians' promises receive heavenly dimensions...
94.2% of the young people in Macedonia use applications such as WhatsApp, Viber, Skype and Messenger
96,3 % of the young people between the age of 15 and 24, are every day or almost everyday on the Internet where most of the time they use it for sending instant messages via applications such as Messenger, WhatsApp, Viber and Skype, informs the report titled as "The Use of Information-Communication Technologies in Households and Among Individuals, 2019"...
All Goce Delcev dormitory blocks have been renovated but the students’ restaurant which is half a century old
Blocks V and G at the Goce Delchev dormitory have been renovated completely and are put into use. These were visited today by the interim Prime Minister Oliver Spasovski together with the Minister of Education and Science, Arber Ademi and the Director of the State Student Center Dario Nikolovski.
-This government intends to work towards improving the student's standard....
In the last 5 years, Macedonian MPs have collected 3 million euros for traveling costs
Macedonian MPs have collected 3 million euros during the period between 2015 and 2019, revealed the State Commission for Prevention of Corruption (SCPC). The annual sum has decreased from 770.000 euros in 2015 to 390.000 euros last year, mainly due to informing on part of the media and the pressure from the general public, said the SCPC's President Biljana...
No declaration of flu epidemics and visits to public health institutions will be limited, announced the Macedonian Health Minister Filipche
The Ministry of Health will not declare a flu epidemics even though the schools and the kindergartens are half empty while the clinics are full. The Commission for Infectious Diseases have only made a decision to limit the visits to all health institutions. The Minister of Health, Venko Filipche, confirmed that so far no epidemic will be declared....
Reaction from the anti-corruption commission: The rectors are illegally forming syndicates
The rectors of the universities in Skopje and Bitola have directly violated the principles of lawfulness and integrity with their calls for forming syndicates at the universities, announced the State Commission for Preventing Corruption (SCPC) during today's press conference. The State Labor Inspectorate has also determined a violation and it will implement its own procedures.
The independent academic syndicate...
MPs unanimously ratified the NATO accession protocol
With 114 votes in favor, the Parliament adopted the Law on Ratification of the North Atlantic Treaty. The Law has a delayed action and will enter into force as soon as Spain ratifies the Protocol for Macedonia's accession into NATO.
The President of the Parliament Talat Xhaferi said that our road to NATO as seen through the prism of...
The ratification of the North Atlantic Treaty will be the only point on the agenda of tomorrow’s session at the Macedonian Parliament
During the 133rd parliamentary session set for tomorrow starting at 15h, the MPs will casting a vote for the draft law for the ratification of the North Atlantic Agreement, which is the last step regarding Macedonia's accession in NATO's Alliance.
It's a content of an agreement that was written on the 4th of April 1949 and for the first...
With the waste import ban, the cement plant Usje will start using conventional fuels
Several days after the amendments to the Law on waste management were passed at the Parliament, which banned the import of waste used as fuel, there aren't any precise analyses about the effects of this ban. The biggest beneficiary of waste as fuel in Macedonia is the cement plant Titan-Usje, but it used only 4% of RDF waste as...
The Anti-Corruption Committee demands that the “urgent and pressing” employments be defined during the pre-election period
The State Anti-Corruption Committee demands a precise definition and description in which cases the new employments in the public sector during the election can be advertised including the appointment of new officials. The Committee indicates that the mass job advertisements especially in January leave space for suspicion that the voters are being influenced.
The Election Code and the Law...
The Airport train has a priority among transportation projects for which assets from the EU will be requested
The Ministry of Transport and Communications has put the railway project that connects from the Transport center with the International Airport Skopje along with several projects for which it will apply for support from the EU and other international financial institutions. The ministry has confirmed for Meta.mk that during the second half of 2019 it has submitted at...
Foreign waste is burnt at the cement plant because the domestic one isn’t sorted at Drisla landfill
The pressure from the general public which demands to know what sort of waste is imported in the state and how it is destroyed, these days it woke the authorities which started with inspections of trucks at border crossings which transport waste for burning (RDF) at the Skopje's cement plant" Usje" and environmental associations who fight the pollution....
