It has a population of 1.8 million people
Kosovo ... the most youthful in Europe and the highest recorded Corona deaths worldwide
A poster on the floor in front of a school to remind pupils of social distancing during preparations for the school opening in Pristina. EPA
It appears that Kosovo has become the most recorded place of new deaths from the Corona virus in the world.
Kosovo, where people under 25 make up half of its 1.8 million population, recorded 54.2 deaths per million due to the Corona virus last week.
And Bloomberg News Agency reported that there are several factors behind Kosovo's registration of the largest number of Corona deaths around the world. Since its separation from Serbia after a bloody war, Kosovo is still the poorest country in Europe, as it has relied on the remittances of its citizens living abroad, who left the country to go to wealthier parts of the continent.
On the other hand, corruption impeded the development of the health system.
Nevertheless, it seemed that politics was the biggest factor contributing to making Kosovo the country with the most recorded deaths from the Coronavirus, as the Executive Director of the Albanian Institute for Political Studies in Tirana, Ephrem Krasnicki, said: “At the height of the Corona epidemic, Kosovo overthrew its government, and isolated the Minister of Health and officials Prominent in the management of this sector ».
He added, "Kosovo was the only country in the region that failed to take swift and exceptional measures to curb the spread of the Coronavirus."
After what now appeared to be an early easing of restrictions imposed to contain the outbreak of the Corona virus last May, the new Prime Minister Abdullah Hoti, a former finance minister who had completed his education in the United Kingdom, decided to tighten social distancing rules during the month of July, in order to control cases of infection. The growing corona virus.
Hottie himself contracted the Coronavirus this month, although he is now back at work.
The WHO liaison official in the capital, Pristina, Sergey Kuryak, says that the registration of about 140 to 160 daily cases of Coronavirus can be considered a "rise" in cases of infection.
He added that the organization is working to increase the ability to conduct screening tests for the Corona virus to exceed the current number, which is about 500 tests per day, expressing his concerns that the official data may not reflect the true number of infections.
"Laboratories conduct tests only for patients who show symptoms and suffer from high temperature," Koriak said by phone, adding, "Therefore, it is possible that some moderate cases are not detected."
It is noteworthy that the total cases of Coronavirus in Kosovo reached 12,683 cases. The death toll from the virus is 488.
In Kosovo, several thousand operators of restaurants, cafes and bars protested in Pristina in late July, calling for an increase in working hours and more government assistance to keep their businesses running during the Coronavirus crisis.
Participants in the protests warned that many of them may be forced to close their commercial activities soon, due to the losses they suffer as a result of the outbreak of the virus and the measures imposed to reduce cases of infection.
Kosovo was the only country in the region that failed to take swift and exceptional measures to curb the outbreak of the Coronavirus.