TIRANA – Amidst the fear of an escalation of the coronavirus pandemic echoed by the health authorities and PM Edi Rama, it was announced on Monday that 15 new cases of affected persons were confirmed taking to 104 the total number of infected people in Albania.
Health Minister Ogerta Manastirliu told the media that there is an expansion of the geographical map of the presence of the virus with the southern city of Vlora and northern city of Shkodra confirming 4 and 1 cases respectively for the first time.
“The map of the affected with Covid-19 has already expanded in Vlora and Shkodra while the number of the affected people has increased in Tirana and Durres,” said the minister, who informed that 856 tests have already been done. She also revealed that 5 patients have recovered.
For her part the chief of the Department of the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases at the Institute of Public Health (ISHP), Silva Bino said there were 49 hospitalized patients at the infectious hospital in Tirana and 3 of them are in intensive therapy. “The rest are in stable condition so far,” she said. Tirana tops the list of the infected persons amounting to 68 followed by Fier with 12.
PM Rama warns of fatalities by ‘bomb explosions’
The Prime Minister, Edi Rama has sounded highly like never before the sound of alarm warning that Albania is threatened to lose a ‘mountain of people’. In a post on his FB account on Monday he launched the appeal for halting the fatality at any cost because, as he warned, this is the week of the explosion of ‘bombs’. “It is a decisive week,” he said.
Mr. Rama called on the people to abide by the preventive measures and the deadlines of the lockdown. “We entered soon in tranches and it is a shame to lose this advantage for nothing,” he said adding that the disobedient persons will drop in number when they see the war bulletins reporting on the increased of the victims.
“We cannot avoid some losses but it is up to us to avoid the catastrophe,” said the PM, who has been criticized by opposition and some figures of the social society for creating panic among the population with his frightful warnings.
In the meantime the health ministry has announced that the number of fatalities from Covid – 19 rose to 4 on Monday as a 43-year old passed away at the infectious hospital.
But in a tit-for-tat response Mr. Rama took this opportunity to respond to his criticizers telling them that he did not belong to the ‘bad race’ who say: ‘Do what I say, but don’t do what I do!’ He closed his remarks by noting that it is a paradox that slanders and nonsense continue at this time of the plague. /argumentum.al
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