TIRANA, Feb 18 /ATA/- The National Institute of Public Health of Kosovo (NIPHK) has reported that since March 13, 2020, 65 thousand and 65 citizens have been infected with COVID-19 in the country.
56, 655 citizens have recovered from novel coronavirus and 1, 553 others have died due to infection.
There are currently 6,857 active cases of COVID-19 in the country.
Most positive cases were reported in the Municipality of Prishtina.
During the last 24 hours, in the Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology at NIPHK and private laboratories using the method RT-PCR, a total of 2,667 samples taken from NHSKU and tracking of case contacts in the field were tested, of which 297 cases turned out to be positive. In the last 24 hours, 5 fatalities were reported due to SARS CoV-2 infection. Death cases are from the municipalities: Pristina 2 cases (81, 53 years old), Ferizaj 1 case (79 years old), Rahovec 1 case (80 years old) and Suhareka 1 case (57 years old). The total number of positive cases is 65,065 cases out of 274,160 suspected of being infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus and 1,553 deaths. During the last 24 hours, 311 patients have recovered putting the total number of cured cases to date at 56,655, while the number of active cases is 6,857, ” same sources from NIPHK say.
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