TIRANA, Jan 20 /ATA/- 56,412 people have been infected with the novel coronavirus since March 13 last year, when the first two positive cases were confirmed in Kosovo.
Until now 1,420 citizens have died due to COVID infection, while 49,713 others have recovered.
Meanwhile, according to the latest report of the National Institute of Public Health of Kosovo (NIPHK), there are 5,279 active cases in the country.
“During the last 24 hours, in the Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology at NIPHK and private laboratories using the RT-PCR method, a total of 1,729 samples taken from NHSKU and the tracking of case contacts in the field were tested, of which 294 ones turned out to be positive. In the last 24 hours, 9 fatalities were reported. The total number of positive cases is 56,412 out of 211,689 ones suspected of being infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, whereas the total number of deaths is 1,420 deaths.
During the last 24 hours, 281 patients have recovered, putting the total number of cured cases at 49,713, while the number of active cases is 5,279. //a.i/
