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37 patients tested positive to COVID-19 today in North Macedonia, out of 464 conducted tests

The Ministry of Health informs that in the past 24 hours, 464 tests were conducted and 37 new COVID-19 cases were registered. Out of them, 20 were registered in Skopje. The Institute for Public Health has registered 131 recovered patients and 4 patients have died - a patient from Vinica (aged 57), two patients from Ohrid (aged 77 and...

Today there are 142 new cases of COVID -19, 98 patients recovered, and 5 patients died

The Ministry of Health informs that in the past 24 hours, 1.542 tests were conducted, and 142 new COVID-19 cases were registered in North Macedonia. Today, the Public health Institute registered 98 recovered patients, and 5 persons have died from the following cities: Gostivar (aged 69), Prilep (aged 84), Ohrid (aged 84), Makedonski Brod (aged 46,) and a patient...

Three returning ISIS members arrested in North Macedonia, explosive belts and weapons found

In a police raid carried out by the Ministry of Interior (MOI) of North Macedonia, in cooperation with the National Security Agency (NSA), and by order of the Basic Public Prosecutor's Office for Prosecuting Organised Crime and Corruption (BPPO-POCC), three terrorists who organized themselves upon ISIS' model and have conspired terrorist actions, were arrested yesterday. During the arrests, explosive...

The railroad line to Skopje airport becomes part of the new North Macedonia government’s program

The building of a new railroad line from Miladinovci to the International airport Skopje became part the Government of North Macedonia's work program for the period between 2020-2024. The new government led by Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, which was elected yesterday by the Parliament, obliged itself to build the railroad branch line in the length of 5 km. This...

With 62 votes in favor, Parliament of North Macedonia elects new Government led by Zoran Zaev

With 62 votes for, the Parliament of North Macedonia last night elected the new government led by Zoran Zaev. The session was attended by 115 MPs out of whom 113 MPs cast their vote. 51 MPs voted against the new government's cabinet. In his address before the voting for the new executive power center, mandatary Zoran Zaev said that the...

The total number of COVID-19 cases in North Macedonia climbed to more than 14.000

In the past 24 hours, 1.529 tests were conducted and 89 new COVID-19 cases were registered, informs the Health Ministry. of North Macedonia The Institute for Public Health has registered 215 recovered patients and seven patients died. Newly infected persons with COVID-19 were registered in the following cities: Skopje-39, Kumanovo-10, Debar-1, Shtip-4, Prilep-8, Tetovo-1, Struga-3, Bitola-1, Ohrid-4, Kavadarci-3, Gostivar-2, Strumica-1,...

Book Fair in Skopje between 8 and 14th of September as an open air event

The Book Fair 2020 in Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia, will take place between 8th and 14th of September and will be an open-air event at the A1 Arena Sports Hall "Boris Trajkovski", near the Aqua Park, informed the organizers. "Book lovers will be able to choose from selections of a large number of domestic and foreign authors, foreign...

Reactions: Manual for learning system for teachers in North Macedonia useless

"Instructional manual for the use of the learning system management" is the title of the document published on the North Macedonia's Bureau for Development of Education's official webpage (BDE), that is supposed to be of use for the teachers for their professional career development. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the BDE's management have created an online course titled "Performing...

In North Macedonia 109 new COVID-19 cases, 422 recoveries and one death

In the last 24 hours in North Macedonia ,109 new COVID-19 cases were diagnosed, which brought the total number of coronavirus-diagnosed since the start of the pandemic to 11 942 cases. Also, 422 recovered and one person died in the last 24 hours, North Macedonia's Ministry of Health informs. In this time period, there were 782 COVID-19 testings. The distribution of...

New transplantations in North Macedonia – two patients received kidneys from a deceased donor

The Health Ministry informs that this morning, at the Clinic of Urology two kidneys were explanted from a 46-year-old patient, who was diagnosed with brain death and the organs will be transplanted to two two patients on dialysis. "t the moment, the first transplantation is underway of a kidney to a 35-year-old womanl who has been on dialysis, and second...

Secondary education in North Macedonia didn’t provide conditions for quality distant learning

In 64% of the cases, the digital tools were used either rarely (once in two weeks or once a month) or not at all in the regular teaching process, and 51% of the students were never trained by their teachers how to use digital tools for the needs in the learning process. These are some of the findings of...

No deceased patients from COVID-19 in the last 24 hours in North Macedonia

From 1 636 COVID-19 tests in the last 24 hours in North Macedonia, there are 163 newly diagnosed patients, informs the Ministry of Health. Most of them – 52 are from Skopje, 33 from Shtip, 21 from Kumanovo and 17 from Gostivar. Two each are from Debar, Veles, Strumica, Probishtip and Kochani, while Tetovo recorded 4 new cases, Struga 7,...

New 164 cases of COVID-19 in North Macedonia, with 74 recoveries and 5 deaths

North Macedonia’s Ministry of Health informs that in the last 24 hours out of 1 612 tests for COVID-19, 164 persons tested positive. The distribution of the new cases by cities is as follows: Skopje 59, Sveti Nikole 23, Debar 18, Shtip 17, Kumanovo 12, Gostivar 9, Tetovo, Kichevo and Struga 6 each, Kavadarci and Probishtip 2 each, and...

Elections in North Macedonia: Police intervened for a fight and photographing of ballots

During today's snap parliamentary elections in North Macedonia, the Ministry of Interior (MOI) has registered several voting irregularities and offenses throughout the country. The police have registered voters taking photographs of the ballots at polling stations No. 0537 in Debar, 0755 in the village of Osoj, municipality of Kichevo, and 2909 in Skopje. These people will be fined accordingly,...

In North Macedonia 198 new COVID-19 cases, 97 recoveries and 4 deaths

In the last 24 hours in North Macedonia, 1 382 testings for the coronavirus have been conducted and 198 people tested positive. Most of them are from Skopje – 83, followed by Shtip with 21 new cases, Kumanovo with 12 and Bitola with 11 newly diagnosed patients. In the same period, four people died from COVID-19 – 2 from Prilep...

North Macedonia with 168 new COVID-19 cases, 3 deaths and 70 recoveries

The toll of the COVID-19 in North Macedonia in the last 24 hours diverted from the trends of the past few days, when the number of patients who recovered was greater than that of the new cases, but the former took a downturn and today there were only 70 recoveries, while yesterday 230 recovered patients were registered. The number...

Three days in a row the number of recoveries bigger than that of the new cases of COVID-19

The Ministry of Health of North Macedonia informs that in the past 24 hour period 163 new COVID-19 cases were registered, with 8 deaths and 230 recoveries. The number of the conducted tests is 1 794. The biggest number of the newly diagnosed cases is for the capital Skopje - 87 cases, with Tetovo as second on the list, with...

Analysis: Balkan countries do not have a consistent strategy for COVID-19 testing

No country in the world knows the exact total number of people infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 disease. All that is known is what can be learned from the official records kept by health authorities based on the results of the tests performed. All infections that are laboratory confirmed are considered confirmed cases. This means that the...

One-quarter of Macedonian citizens live at the moment and do not plan for the future

One quarter (25%) of Macedonian citizens say they agree with the statement "live for today and let tomorrow take care of itself", 17% are neutral regarding this issue and 51% don't agree with this way of living. These are some of the results of the survey conducted by OECD and INFE published in their report "Financial Literacy of Adults...

Coronavirus crisis lead to half a milion passengers less than projected for the airports in North Macedonia (infographic)

The first four months of the coronavirus crisis in Macedonia have caused serious damage to air traffic. Due to the decision on the 18th of March to close the two airports as a measure to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in North Macedonia, by the end of May half a million passengers are "lost". The data provided by the...