details of ongoing viral outbreak in North Macedonia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached North Macedonia in February 2020.[3]
COVID-19 pandemic in North Macedonia Пандемија на коронавирус во Македонија 2020 (in Macedonian) | |
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Disease | COVID-19 |
Virus strain | SARS-CoV-2 |
Location | North Macedonia |
First outbreak | Wuhan, China via Italy |
Index case | Skopje |
Arrival date | 26 February 2020 (4 years, 6 months, 1 week and 6 days) |
Confirmed cases | 307,967[1][2] |
Active cases | 1,111 |
Recovered | 297,600 |
Deaths | 9,256 |
Government website | |
koronavirus.gov.mk |
The first case in the country was mainly connected with the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy as there are about 70,000 residents[4] of Italy from North Macedonia. This resulted in many people returning to North Macedonia, bringing the virus with them.[5] It was confirmed in 26 February.
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