TIRANA, Jan 18 /ATA/- At least 55, 851 citizens of Kosovo have been infected with the novel corona virus since March, 2020 when the first two positive cases were reported.
Over a span of 10 months, 1, 410 citizens have lost the battle with the Covid-19.
Meanwhile, according to Kosovo’s National Institute of Public Health, there are 5, 172 active cases of COVID-19 in the country.
During the last 24 hours, in the Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology in NIPHK and private laboratories using the RT-PCR method, a total of 1,642 samples taken from HNCKU and the tracking of case contacts on the field were tested, of which 353 ones turned out to be positive. In the last 24 hours, 5 deaths were reported due to SARS CoV-2 infection. Death cases are from the municipalities: Dragash 1 case (69 years old), Ferizaj 1 case (83 years old), Mitrovica 1 case (76 years old), Peja 1 case (78 years old), Rahovec 1 case (77 years old). The total number of positive cases is 55,851 out of 208,583 suspected of infected with SARS-CoV-2 virus and the total number of deaths is 1,410. During the last 24 hours, 279 patients have recovered putting the total number of cured cases to date at 49,269, while the number of active cases is 5,172 ,” according to the last report of NIPHK.
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