TIRANA – A worrisome increase in the daily coronavirus cases was registered in Albania during the last 24 hours as 25 affected persons were confirmed with the virus bringing the total number to 1029 on Tuesday.
This abrupt jump in number of the infections came after some days with a low rate of new cases down the one digit figure.
Director of the Health Service Operator, Mirela Cami said the cases have been found out in Tirana (24) and 15 of them are employees of a call-center, and 1 in Durres.
She also stated the total number of fatalities has reached 33 while the number of hospitalized patients increased to 17 and 3 of them are in intensive care.
“173 citizens were tested as suspects affected by Covid-19 during the last 24 hours,” she said.
“The epidemiological investigation is continuing for some new cases in Tirana. In the meantime, 8 citizens have recovered during the last 24 hours,” said Cami./argumentum.al