TIRANA, March 9/ATA/- Today marks one year since COVID-19 emerged, with the identification of the first two cases in the Laboratory of Virology at the Institute of Public Health and the treatment of the first two patients at the Infectious Diseases Hospital, on March 9, 2020.
The Albania’s Minister of Health and Social Protection Ogerta Manastirliu has expressed gratitude and thanks to the medical team of Infectious Diseases Hospital, providing an overview of the pandemic year.
Speaking about the measures to deal with the pandemic, the Minister of Health Manastirliu said that, “there is still much work to be done, but the fact remains that today there is more capacity in intensive care units, country’s ventilator capacity has increased, there are about 507 ventilators, life-saving equipment, thus there is a fleet of equipment, providing quality health services, which is one more step towards superiority over the virus, because obviously victory requires even more work, even more sacrifice and above all, it requires the cooperation of the citizens,” Minister Manastirliu said.
The Minister of Health and Social Protection has guaranteed the continuation of support for the white coats on the first line of battle against Covid-19 offering a special bonus of 1 thousand euros over monthly salary for doctors and nurses and 500 euros for support staff, from which over 4 thousand health personnel have benefited.
Minister Manastirliu considered the continuation of the vaccination process as a light at the end of the tunnel and announced that, the supply of the next doses will continue according to the contract with the Pfizer Company.
Since the beginning of the pandemic in the country there have been 113,580 positive cases, 1,956 fatalities, while 75,887 citizens have won the battle with the dangerous virus. Currently in our country there are 35,737 active cases of COVID-19. //a.i/
