August has marked the highest death toll from coronavirus in Albania where there were 127 fatalities bringing the total number of victims in this Balkan country to 284, according to statistics provided by local medical bodies.
The daily medical bulletin released on Monday said 133 new infected cases with coronavirus were confirmed out of 820 tests performed over the last 24 hours, while the number of fatalities was 4.
After a decline over three days, the number of new cases jumped again in the last 24 hours rising to the quota of 133 infections breaking the trend of recent days, when the number of the cured patients was higher. More than half of the new cases are still found in the capital, while the rest are distributed in 17 other cities in the country.
In the meantime the number of hospitalized people continues the growing trend. “Currently 180 confirmed positive patients with Covid-19 are being treated and 17 are in intensive therapy of which 6 patients are intubated in the hospitals of the Infectious Diseases and “Shefqet Ndroqi”. Some 45 citizens who have been confirmed positive with COVID-19 are also receiving specialized services in the two COVID hospitals and they are currently negative, but they are continuing to receive hospital treatment because of the consequences of the disease,” said the Health Ministry.
Meanwhile, the epidemiologist, Rexhep Muja, who is part of the groups that take tests of the suspects with COVID19 at their homes, said the number of people infected with coronavirus in Tirana is increasing by dozens of cases every day while the suspects are hundreds.
According to him, the hottest areas in Tirana in terms of the spread of those infected by COVID-19 are Ish-Blloku, Astir, Fresku, Kamza, Paskuqan, and Kinostudio. Currently almost 60 percent of the nationwide active infected cases are in Tirana. Official figures reveal that out of 4,000 active cases recorded throughout Albania almost 2,100 are in Tirana. /argumentum.al
