Coronavirus in Kosovo: 224 carriers were detected per day. 9 patients died

On August 1, the National Institute of Public Health of Kosovo reported that a 24-hour study of 434 samples in the province revealed 224 new cases of coronavirus infection. Another 152 patients were recognized as cured. According to the Albanian news agency Telegrafi, a total of 8,554 cases of coronavirus infection were recorded in Kosovo. 236 people died from complications caused by COVID-19, of which nine in the last 24 hours. 4,730 patients are already healthy. 3,588 people are being treated. Since the beginning of the epidemic, more than seven hundred Kosovo doctors have been infected with coronavirus. Five of them died. On July 21, a family doctor died for the first time in Kosovo from the consequences of COVID-19. This is Fadil Zuka, who was treating patients with this disease. In Zuke's obituary, the Association of Doctors of Kosovo notes that Dr. Zuka belonged to a generation of doctors who were persecuted by the Serbian regime and made many sacrifices in order to serve the Albanian population in the 90s. Three more days later, on July 24, two more doctors, surgeon Ali Tolyay and resuscitator Süleyman Regepi, lost the battle with the invisible enemy. Both contracted coronavirus in the workplace. On July 29, three weeks after the fight against the disease, a doctor with thirty years of experience, Lulzim Colgeray from Prizren, died of COVID-19. On July 30, Kuitim Zarari, head of the Main Center for Family Medicine, died in the Kosovo city of Dzhakova at the age of 51. See also: In Macedonia, 188 new carriers of coronavirus were identified. A high number of detectable carriers (daily, more than 50% among those tested, compare with indicators in North Macedonia: an equal number of contracted with three times more intensive testing) with a relatively low level of testing, suggests that the epidemiological situation in Kosovo is extremely difficult. Kosovo Prime Minister Avdulla Hoti openly declares that the health system is no longer coping with the burden. In the near future, new, stricter measures will be taken to prevent the spread of the disease, but this step can be considered late. According to infectologists, the real number of people infected in Kosovo at times exceeds the official 8.5 thousand. The epidemic has brought Kosovo to the brink of humanitarian disaster.