TIRANA – Five fatalities and 140 new infected cases because of COVID-19 have been confirmed, which is the worst balance sheet registered in a day in Albania as announced by the Health Ministry on Tuesday.
In the daily update on the situation Dr. Rovena Daja from the Institute of Public Health said 603 tests were performed in the country and out of the total 140 cases found to be positive 72 were registered in Tirana, the Capital of Albania, which remains the hot spot of the epidemic. The geographical map of the distribution of the virus shows that the entire territory of the country is affected by C19, and cases vary from 14 in Kavaja to 1 in Durres, Lezha, Lushnja, and Vlora. Infected people were confirmed in Fier, Kamza, Kukes, Kruja, Kurbin, Mirdita, Shkodra, Korca, Elbasan, Tepelena and Bulqiza.
In the meantime Dr. Daja said that 101 people recovered but the number of the hospitalized patients stands at 124, and 18 are in intensive therapy and 4 intubated.
In the bulletin released on Tuesday the cliché of the preventive measures for the citizens are listed as copy paste like in previous bulletins.
COVID-19 statists on August 11, 2020 are as follows: total tests – 47,051; positive cases -6,676; cured cases – 3, 480; active cases- 2,991 and fatalities- 205.
In face of the alarming situation, the chairman of the ‘Zgjidhja’ (Solution) party, Koco Kokedhima, made public on Tuesday a letter that he sent to foreign diplomats in Tirana expressing the concern that Albania is among the countries most hit by the C19 pandemic in Europe.
In a rare public appearance after a long absence from the political scene, Kokedhima who was very close to PM Edi Rama, lashed out at the government which as he said has left the crisis in the hands of the Technical Committee of Experts which is headed by incompetent and servile militants of the premier. “The government has used the pandemic to make corrupt tenders that are already the subject of justice probe.”
Describing the situation as dramatic, Kokedhima told the diplomats that Rama and his ministers are on holidays as the number of victims and infected people keeps rising.
“Please do not leave the Albanian people alone in these difficult moments,” concluded Kokedhima’s letter to Tirana-based foreign diplomats. /argumentum.al
