From: Exit Staff
More than 190 people are being treated for COVID-19 at the country’s two specialist hospitals in Tirana.
According to the Ministry of Health, 148 of them are being treated with intensive oxygen therapy and seven are intubated in an aggravated condition. There are also a further 39 patients who no longer have COVID-19 but are being treated for damage caused by the virus.
The Ministry didn’t publish any information regarding the number of those hospitalised on suspicion of having the virus. There are a number of cases where the PCR test comes back negative but the virus is believed to still be present in the lungs. These cases are not included in official numbers.
152 new confirmed cases were announced yesterday along with four deaths.
