The Norwegian Embassy in Prishtina has announced that it will donate almost half a million euros to Kosovo for the purchase of respirators to help deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Norway 🇳🇴 will contribute with NOK 5 mill to help procure urgently needed ventilators for Kosovo, in light of the…
Gepostet von Norwegian Embassy in Prishtina am Montag, 6. April 2020
In an announcement on Facebook, the embassy said:
“Norway will contribute 5 million Norweigan kroner to help procure urgently needed ventilators for Kosovo in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. A big thank you to our partner UNDP Kosovo”.
5 million Norwegian kroner roughly equates to €440,000.
This morning the Ministry of Health in Kosovo announced that two patients diagnosed with Coronavirus had died in the early hour of the morning.
One patient was a 59-year-old suffering from type 2 diabetes who was admitted on 4 April in a critical condition. The second was a 70-year-old female patient who had diabetes, hypertension and cardiomyopathy and had been admitted on 2 April.
To date, a total of 1964 tests have been carried out in Kosovo and 145 came back positive. Most of the cases are in Malisheva, followed by the capital of Prishtina.23 have fully recovered and three have died. Six of those who recovered were over 60 years old.
