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The Ministry of Health informs, according to the data from the Institute of Public Health, in the last 24 hours, 4,621 tests were performed, and 617 new cases of COVID-19 were registered. During the same period 32 deaths have been reported. The total number of COVID-19 diagnosed persons in the country since the beginning of the epidemic is 184,893 the ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel told a joint news conference with Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama that Albania and Macedonia had met the conditions for membership in the European Union. “Both Albania and Macedonia have met the set conditions to start membership negotiations. Unfortunately, this was not achieved due to the Bulgarian veto, but we promised to be close to this ...

The MPs from the opposition VMRO-DPMNE asked the PS Talat Xhaferi as the first point of the 50th session, to find a draft decision to dismiss Venko Filipce from the post of Minister of Health, which was rejected by the Speaker of Parliament with the explanation that, according to the Constitution, such a proposal should be submitted by the Prime ...

These days, the Municipal Election Commissions (MEC) in accordance with the Electoral Code are already submitting lists of candidates for councillors and mayors. “All MEC as an election body are obliged to comply with the provisions of the Law on Personal Data Protection, according to which the protection of personal data and the right to privacy regarding the processing of ...

Spokesperson of the Government of the Republic of North Macedonia Dusko Arsovski and the Director of the State Statistical Office Apostol Simovski, held joint press conference where they informed on the current activities related to the Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in the Republic of North Macedonia in 2021. The Director of SSO, Simovski said that the census is ...

On Monday, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev broke the silence and answered questions related to the accident in Tetovo where 14 people passed away. He said that he respected the days of mourning, so he refrained from making statements. He said that the investigation will show the correctness of the facility where the patients were accommodated, and that he will wait ...

Prime Minister Zoran Zaev received the US Ambassador to the country Kate Marie Byrnes who expressed hers, as well as the condolences of the US people for the victims of the fire in the modular COVID-19 hospital in Tetovo. Prime Minister Zaev informed that a comprehensive investigation is underway into the case in which, in addition to domestic, experts from ...

EU Special Representative for the Western Balkans and for the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, Miroslav Lajcak, said that the blockade of North Macedonia due to the dispute with Bulgaria has a bad effect on neighbouring countries, especially Serbia and Kosovo. “Of course this has consequences on the dialogue and those consequences are negative, the fact that North Macedonia did ...

In a written address to the public, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said that the resignations after the fire at the COVID Centre in Tetovo are a high moral and ethical act and a demonstration of integrity and responsibility that is inevitable in such major accidents, pointing out that responsibility will be had, based on irrefutable forensic facts, not on the ...

Minister of Health, Venko Filipce resigned after the tragic accident at the Tetovo modular hospital, where 14 people lost their lives in a fire. “A year and a half ago we registered the first COVID-19 case in our country, I remember that day. We had two press conferences from this same rostrum. From that day until today, I always stood ...