TIRANA – The number of the coronavirus infected people is skyrocketing with 82 new cases confirmed by the local authorities who in Thursday’s daily medical bulleting did not hide their deep concern on what is happening in Albania.
“The Ministry Health and Social Protection calls on every citizen to show extra care in any environment and respect hygiene measures, physical distance, avoid contact and use face masks,” said the specialist of the Institute of Public Health, Rovena Daja on Thursday.
The new cases bring the total number of infected people to 2,662, including three more fatalities.
Currently, 78 patients are hospitalized in the Infectious Diseases Ward and 9 of them are in intensive care, while 2 are intubated.
It is reported that 368 tests have been performed to suspected persons with Covid-19, of which 82 cases have been confirmed positive during the last 24 hours.
The geographical distribution of cases is as follows: 30 cases in Tirana, 6 cases in Shkodra, 6 in Kavaja, 6 in Fushe-Arrez, 5 in Vlora, 4 cases in Kruja, 4 in Durres, 4 in Lushnje, 2 cases in Fier, 2 in Kurbin, 2 in Korce, 2 in Berat, 2 in Diber, 2 in Vau i Dejes, and 1 case in Elbasan, 1 in Lezha, 1 in Has, 1 in Puka and 1 in Rrogozhina.
What is considered good news is the fact that 43 citizens have recovered in the last 24 hours, bringing to 1,559 the number of those healed since the outbreak of the epidemic.
Daja said that there are 1034 active people in Albania with COVID-19, mainly in Tirana, Shkodra, Durres.
In a comment on the worsening situation of the pandemic the senior official of the opposition Democratic Party (DP), Tritan Shehu said on Thursday that this government is threatening the health of the people because of the bad management of the epidemics.
“Today we have worse health effects of the pandemic. Also we are more isolated without the right to move freely abroad,” said Shehu, a former health minister.
In addition he was worried that the situation is aggravating day by day as the cases of the infected people keep rising and the isolation of the country becomes greater. Shehu held responsible PM Edi Rama for not giving explanations regarding what is happening and which are the causes of the aggravated situation. /argumentum.al
