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Northern Macedonia on Friday (December 10th) registered 15 deaths from COVID-19 and 361 infected, based on testing 4,982 samples. According to the data of the Ministry of Health, six deaths were registered in Skopje, out of three deaths were registered in Prilep and Bitola, two in Gostivar and one in Kumanovo.
Regarding the infected, 166 people are registered in Skopje, while the smallest number is in 27 other cities.
Of the approximately 218,000 people diagnosed with COVID-19, 7,710 have died while the number of active cases is 5,620, or about 3,000 less than by mid-November.
The latest report of the Institute of Public Health speaks about the reduction of the number of infected and victims.
According to the data, in the period November 29-December 5, the number of deaths is between 10 and 15 people, unlike the last three months when this figure was over 20.
“Positive cases are of all ages, but the most common are those over 60 years old, while the least affected are children up to 9 years old. “Although the number of new patients is declining, there is a slight increase in the number of hospitalized patients.” stated in the report of the Institute, reports rel.
Despite appeals from health institutions, the number of vaccinated citizens remains low in northern Macedonia.
The latest official data show that about 39 percent of the population has been vaccinated with two doses, a figure far from the expectations of the Ministry of Health, which had warned several times that by mid-October half of the population of two million would be vaccinated. .
The Ministry of Health has recently launched a campaign to reward doctors who manage to vaccinate over 70 percent of their patients, or 50 cents for each patient. According to the Institute of Public Health of Northern Macedonia, vaccination of 80 percent of the population is needed to achieve collective immunity.
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