TIRANA, March 3 /ATA/- Albania is unaffected by novel coronavirus COVID-19. In a daily media briefing, representative of Task-Force established by the Ministry of Health, Eugena Tomini stated that 5 more suspected cases of infections tested by virology lab at Public Health Institute resulted negative.
“Yesterday the Virology Lab close to Public Health Institute has examined 5 more cases suspected of infections bringing the number of tested cases to 36. All cases have tested negative for COVID 19. The persons showed symptoms of respiratory infection and had history of travel to countries with community outbreak of novel coronavirus,” Tomini said.
As 17830 passengers have entered the country in the last 24 hours, stringent security measures are in place at all border points which involve temperature checks for all inbound passengers.
In the last 24 hours, the number of calls to free-toll number 127 have reached 1649, of which 39 were screened for respiratory infections and history of travel to Italy.
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