Albania has gathered the Health Task Force at Rinas Airport.
The Minister of Health, Ogerta Manstirliu stated that there is no person infected by coronavirus in Albania.
The minister has made a warn on the media to avoid any misinformation about the case.
According to her, people should be informed only by official information provided by the ministry and the ISSH.
“We will be open, transparent about this event as we have done with other events such as the earthquake.
I would like to point out that Albania has so far no confirmed case of coronavirus.
We have communicated to you that the suspected cases have been analyzed by the public health institute and have resulted negative.
We have doubled measures on border traffic. We are at Rinas Airport, in the ports of Saranda, Vlora and Durres as well as at the land crossing borders.
We have monitored more than 4,500 passengers that have arrive.
The evaluation was done according to the parameters and guidelines of the World Health Organization. We are following the situation step by step.
I have signed the order to increase sanitary hygiene measures in the sanitary structures of nurseries, of university, schools and other measures that directly affect the health of the population.
The first point is to listen the experts of the field ”, stated Manastirliu./abcnews.al
