TIRANA – In the highest daily rise since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic on March 9 this year Albania registered 57 new cases of people affected by COVID-19 on Sunday.
Making public the medical update Rovena Daja, expert at Institute of Public Health (ISHP), said the town of Kruja had the highest number of new cases with 16 infected persons during the last 24 hours. According to her, most of the infected persons were hit by the virus in business activities and from their contacts. There were 14 cases in Capital Tirana followed by Vlora (9), Shkodra (8), Lushnja (6), Puka (2), Durres (1) and Fier (1).
Daja said 362 tests were made on persons suspected of being infected with Covid-19 in the last 24 hours. It is noted that there is an increase of the number of tests coinciding with the upward trend of the infected persons during the last 5 days.
There is, in the meantime, a drop of the recovered patients as 5 citizens left the hospital in Tirana on Sunday. Currently, there are 47 patients hospitalized at the Mother Teresa Hospital University Center and 7 of them are in intensive care with 1 being intubated.
Daja said that Sundays COVID-19 cases were discovered at commercial subjects, and public and private institutions.
Given the spread of the disease the Health Ministry has recommended that businesses, institutions, companies and other working places should consider the alternative of work from home in order to check the virus, said the ISHP specialist.
Speaking live on Klan TV on Saturday, Eugena Tomini of ISHP did not hide the concern over what is happening regarding the spread of the virus. She said that citizens are mostly responsible for the increase of the number of the infections. Asked if there might be a return of the lockdown, Tomini was reluctant to give a clear answer but said that citizens should abide by the preventive measures like self distancing and the wearing of masks. /argumentum.al
