220 new coronavirus carriers identified in Kosovo per day

On July 26, the National Institute of Public Health of Kosovo reported that 220 new cases of coronavirus infection were detected during the day as a result of a study of 472 samples in the province. 121 people were declared cured. The number of active infections in the region began to increase again. According to the Albanian news agency Telegrafi, a total of 7,137 cases of coronavirus infection were recorded in Kosovo. 177 people died from complications caused by COVID-19, of which six in the last 24 hours. 3874 patients are already healthy. 3086 people are being treated. Since the beginning of the epidemic, 756 Kosovo doctors have been infected with coronavirus. Three of them died. On July 21, a family doctor died for the first time in Kosovo from the consequences of COVID-19. This is Fadil Zuka, who was treating patients with this disease. In Zuke's obituary, the Association of Doctors of Kosovo notes that Dr. Zuka belonged to a generation of doctors who were persecuted by the Serbian regime and made many sacrifices in order to serve the Albanian population in the 90s. Three more days later, on July 24, two more doctors, surgeon Ali Tolyay and resuscitator Süleyman Regepi, lost the battle with the invisible enemy. Both contracted coronavirus in the workplace.