TIRANA, Jan 25 /ATA/- 58,088 citizens have been infected with COVID-19 since March 2020, when the first two positive cases of this virus were reported in Kosovo.
Since then, 1,456 others have died due to coronavirus infection.
Meanwhile, 50 thousand 953 citizens have recovered, according to the daily update of the National Institute of Public Health of Kosovo (NIPHK).
Currently, there are 5,679 active cases of COVID-19.
During the last 24 hours, in the Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology at NIPHK and private laboratories using the RT-PCR method, a total of 1618 samples taken from NUHSK and the tracking of case contacts in the field, were tested, of which 392 cases tested positive. In the first 24 hours, 6 deaths were reported due to SARS CoV-2. Death cases are from the municipalities: Gjilan 1 case (72 years old), Kamenica 1 case (57 years old), Mitrovica 1 case (83 years old), Pristina 1 case (73 years old), Viti 1 case (51 years old), Vushtrri 1 case (62 years old).
The total number of positive cases is 58,088 cases out of 219,760 suspected of being infected with SARS-CoV-2 virus and 1,456 deaths. During the last 24 hours, 222 patients have recovered, putting the total number of cured cases to date at 50,953 cases, while the number of active cases is 5,679, ” same sources say.
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