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The Delta strain of the corona virus, which arrived in Serbia at the beginning of July, has already taken absolute dominance in our desire, says for Telegraf.rs prof. Dr. Tanja Jovanović, from the Institute of Microbiology of the Medical Faculty in Belgrade, who does genome sequencing.

Prof. Dr. Jovanović, who is also a member of the Crisis Staff for the fight against the corona virus, reveals for our portal that more than 90 percent of patients are infected with the Indian or delta strain, and points out that the processed data have shown that.

– The data that were read today show that the delta strain is dominant and that 90, even more than 90 percent of infected patients have it – says prof. Dr. Jovanović for Telegraf.rs.

Last week, the Institute for Public Health of Serbia “Dr Milan Jovanović Batut” told our portal that the delta strain was confirmed in 14 people in our country. Today, we were referred to the Institute of Microbiology of the Medical Faculty for new information.

Prof. Dr. Jovanović, however, could not tell us the exact total number, but she revealed that only in this group of samples, which was completed today, 23 samples were positive for delta strain.

– And those are the samples from July and August that were analyzed. This practically means that in the current phase, we can freely say the fourth Wave, we have the dominance of the delta variant – said prof. Dr. Jovanovic.

As the Ministry of Health announced on July 1, the delta variant was discovered in Serbia by two citizens of our country, who had previously returned from abroad. Apparently from Russia.

Both patients were younger, unvaccinated, and were in stable general condition at the time. They were not vaccinated.

The delta strain of the corona virus was first discovered in India. In the Western Balkans, it was first identified in Croatia on June 28, then in Kosovo on June 29.

The Indian or delta strain of the corona virus, also known as a double or double mutant, is spreading unstoppably across the planet and is not characterized by a loss of sense of taste and smell.

The new variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worried the scientists, who immediately gave it the name “double mutant” due to a double change in the spike protein.

In India, the two mutations appeared together, which is why it is often referred to as a “double mutant”. This fact does not necessarily mean that the variant is twice as contagious or dangerous, it has yet to be investigated, and so far there is no data.

In addition to delta soy, the British are also present in Serbia, which was confirmed in our country in January this year.

In Pristina, women were hit by the pandemic, leaving 10 percent of them unemployed for six months to 1 year, compared to 4 percent for men. Emphasis is placed on the lack of safety and health at work, where a large number are endangered in the workplace.

The Kosovo Stability Initiative today launched the report “Citizens’ Perceptions and Attitudes in the Prishtina Region”, which surveyed 200 women and men in the Prishtina region, in order to inform decision-makers and the government on key social and welfare policies.

Mrika Sefaj from IKS said that food and household supplies account for between 10 and 80 percent of household costs. While the average household income spent on this category of expenses is 45.5 percent which is considerable.

“An extremely high number of female respondents have not been employed in the last 6 months to the last 1, claiming that the pandemic has hit them the most by 43.5 percent. Women looking for work are twice as likely as to be out of the labor market than men, “she said.

Among other things, more than most women and young people prefer to be employed abroad.

“Women and young people of 72 percent prefer to be employed abroad, compared to men who have a lower interest rate of 42 percent,” she said.

The director of IKS, Brikenë Hoxha emphasized that they are committed to women’s rights, and that they are working to provide empirical data to public policies.

And, UNOPS project manager, Visare Gorani said that although Kosovo has good laws, there are delays in their implementation.

“No one knows how the employer handles accidents at work. We have had cases where the whole family falls into the trap of unemployment. It is important that our focus, occupational health and safety at work, should have good regulations, policies “where they would enable decent work for all,” she said.

From the Union of Independent Trade Unions of Kosovo, Avni Ajdini said that safety and health at work is very sluggish.

“Workers minimum wage since 2011 has not moved at all of 170 euros. Although there have been promises there is no movement. We have plenty to discuss but we need to work much harder,” he said.

The survey and this report are part of the project “Support to the Social Justice Coalition”, which is within the framework of the UNOPS project “Promoting decent work through strengthening OSH management and social dialogue in Kosovo”.

The President of the Kosovo Chamber of Physicians, Pleurat Sejdiu, has announced that over 60 percent of health staff facing the COVID-19 pandemic have been vaccinated so far.

Sejdiu in the Special Edition of Klan Kosova announced that even with the contingent of vaccines that came today will initially be vaccinated doctors who failed to be vaccinated with the first one.

“We must be based on the official statement of the Ministry of Health which states that doctors will be the first to be vaccinated by this contingent.”

“From the vaccines that were received in Kukës as a donation from the Government of Albania and from the first contingent of vaccines that came to Kosovo, a total of 4,600 doctors were vaccinated.”

“Over 60% of the doctors who are in service have been vaccinated in two phases in our country and in Albania. We expect that there will be about 1600 doctors who will be vaccinated now with the contingent that has arrived today “, said Sejdiu.

Among other things, Sejdiu spoke about the reluctance of doctors to be vaccinated against COVID-19.

“Some of the doctors are pregnant and some of them are at a young age who have antibodies and have considered that they should not get the vaccine. “They should not hesitate at all except for pregnant doctors. The rest should not discuss getting the vaccine and the health personnel should be vaccinated anyway.”

“Our colleagues should keep in mind that the fear of the Indian variant already exists and thus would bring greater trouble and vaccination should not be discussed. “The eyes of the people are with us and everyone should be vaccinated”, said Sejdiu.

The Chief State Election Commissioner in Albania, Ilirjan Celibashi, stated that the voter turnout in the elections according to the CEC data is at the level of 48.2 percent.

However, in order to find out exactly how many citizens have voted, the delivery of the material bases of the polling stations will have to be expected.

“Regarding the participation, as we have explained, the participation according to the data surveyed by the CEC are at the level of 48.2 percent. We will have the official result of the participation after receiving all the information from the polling stations “.

The fact that even though we are 4 hours behind the polls and there is still no final result, Celibashi argued that the CEC over the years has reported on turnout based on polls conducted at polling stations. The total number of participants, Celibashi said will not be given today.

“The result of the participation in terms of the total number of voters who participated, the CEC can not give today. The official result of the voting is the one that comes out after the results come out. In this 20 years, the reporting on the participation is based on polls conducted by the CEC, information provided by the polling stations at different times “, said Celibashi.

However, Celibashi acknowledged that not all polling stations have done their part in providing information on the number of participants.

“The figure you read is a figure that shows the participation in these elections, based on a methodology that has been applied in several dozen elections in Albania. The result officially comes after the election materials are submitted “, said Celibashi.

The Chief State Commissioner said that the counting of votes has started in Pustec, while adding that the submission of election materials to the counting stations is nearing completion. The process of transporting the election material base did not have any problems, according to Celibashi.

As for the counting process, Celibashi said he has no reason to stop.

“There is no question that we will continue the counting process and there is no reason for this process to be interrupted, as there are all measures to exercise their duty and they do not have any obstacles. Only if there will be obstacles of the subjective type ”./ Tvklan

For caterers and tour operators, the rent for March, April and May 2021 will be reduced by 90 percent of the monthly rent determined by the contract. Tenants who perform activities in the field of retail trade, except pharmacies, trade in food products and animal feed, activities in the field of providing craft and other services, activities in the field of sports and educational activities, calculation, invoicing and collection of rent reduced by 40 percent.

At the same time, with the representatives of Zrenjanin’s caterers, it was agreed to meet them when it comes to setting up summer gardens.

In accordance with the epidemiological measures, and considering the difficult working conditions, with their obligation to obtain urban-technical conditions for setting up gardens from the Public Company for Urbanism, while they will pay the fee for occupying the public area during the summer season only for one month.

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April 13, 2021 – 19:57

Iran has warned it will start enriching uranium to 60 percent purity, two days after an attack on the key Natanz nuclear power plant.

Israel is to blame for this attack.

The warning came hours after a senior Iranian diplomat said the alleged Natanz attack was a “very bad game” that would strengthen Tehran’s hand in talks to revive the nuclear deal Iran has signed with world powers in 2015.

Iran has informed the International Atomic Energy Agency of its intentions to “launch enrichment of up to 60 percent,” the state-run IRNA news agency reported on April 13.

Press TV, the Iranian state television in English, has said that the enrichment will start on April 14.

Uranium enrichment of up to 60 percent will be the highest degree achieved by Iran’s nuclear program, although 90 percent purity is needed for military use.

Under the nuclear deal, Iran has pledged to keep enrichment levels at 3.67 percent.

Recently, Iranian officials have said that the nuclear deal is not being implemented and have enriched uranium to 20 percent.

Tehran’s announcement came after Iranian officials said the April 11 explosion had caused power outages at Natanz, affecting Iran’s first generation of centrifuges.

This country has pledged to “take revenge” and increase nuclear activities./REL

Presenting the new, April issue of the IMF’s “Global Economic Outlook 2021”, Gopinat said in an online address, which was also followed by Tanjug, that the increase in the forecast for global gross domestic product (GDP) growth was based on unprecedented fiscal support from domestic governments. response to the corona pandemic.

In that context, she especially emphasized the huge, recently adopted package of US economic stimuli of 1.9 billion dollars.

She added that the improvement in the outlook for world GDP was also influenced by the acceleration of the recovery of the American economy, which the IMF now predicts growth for 2021 of as much as 6.4 percent, the fastest since the early 1980s.

At a press conference on the eve of the spring session of the IMF and the World Bank, which will be attended by a Serbian delegation, Gopinat warned that the projected growth will continue to depend largely on the development of pandemics and the success of vaccination around the world. still not vaccinated.

She also said that with the end of the moratorium on loan repayment, a sudden jump in the illiquidity of companies around the world is expected, as well as that economies will face difficulties when governments stop providing financial assistance.

According to a new estimate by the Fund, the world economy fell by 3.3 percent last year, which is less than the originally projected decline in January of 3.5 percent.

The large number of new cases of COVID-19 infected and the increasing number of hospitalized, have created a serious situation in the health system. Hospital capacities are almost limited, says in an interview for Radio Free Europe, the General Director of the University Hospital and Clinical Service of Kosovo, Valbon Krasniqi.

He adds that over 80 percent of patients with COVID-19 hospitalized in UCCK hospitals and clinics are being treated with oxygen therapy.

Krasniqi demands that measures be observed, such as wearing a mask, physical distance and personal hygiene. According to him, if these do not give their result, then other measures should be considered on how to reduce the curve of the infected.

Radio Free Europe: Mr. Krasniqi, Kosovo is recording a high number of new cases of COVID -19 every day. Fourteen deaths and 923 new cases of coronavirus were reported on Wednesday (March 31st). Is the pandemic situation getting out of control?

Valbon Krasniqi: In fact, this number is a record number in terms of new cases of infection. But, we have more than three weeks as Kosovo that we are recording a large number of new cases of infected that is being followed by a large number of hospitalized. This is showing that the measures are not being respected and this is being reflected in this large number of new cases. We are calling and insisting that the measures in force be respected, otherwise, this number is extremely large and very worrying, when we consider our capacity as a health system in general.

Vaccination of a large number of citizens takes months

Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty: What can be done to control the spread of the coronavirus?

Valbon Krasniqi: Now the world and Kosovo have been facing the COVID-19 pandemic for more than a year and we all know that the best measures to prevent the spread are what we have proclaimed for a year now: keeping mask, physical distance and personal hygiene.

It is now fortunate that Kosovo has finally received the first doses of the vaccine and vaccination has begun, first for health workers and then for the categories according to the vaccination plan, but until the vaccination of a large part of the population, we must definitely respect anti-COVID-19 measures.

We are aware that vaccination takes time and it will take several months for a larger number of our citizens to be vaccinated. We must definitely reduce this curve of the infected, because now they are seriously endangering the hospital capacity, which is on the verge of limit.

Radio Free Europe: What is influencing the increase in the number of COVID-19 cases?

Valbon Krasniqi: Any non-compliance with the measures will be reflected in the increase in the number of cases, mass accumulation is the most important factor in the spread of the virus. Then not wearing a mask, not keeping a physical distance, gatherings of any nature, starting from family ones to gathering premises in different environments, increases the number of cases with COVID-19.

The full interview can be found HERE

GERMIN organization, through observers accredited to the Central Election Commission (CEC), is monitoring the process of verifying ballot packages from outside the Counting and Results Center.

Sihana Bejtullahu from this organization described the vote counting process as very slow, reports Klan Kosova.

“On Tuesday, the verification of the persons who sent their alleged envelopes with ballots started and we assessed the process as very slow, taking into account that it was known earlier that a very large number of voters and yesterday the CEC has decided to increase the number of persons who verify each person who voted from outside ”.

Bejtullahu in the Special Edition in Klan Kosova also spoke about the envelopes that have been rejected by the CEC while showing the reason for the rejection.

“So far we have 12 thousand 746 people who have been rejected out of a total of 44 thousand 720 verified ballots. “If this translates into a percentage, it falls to 28% of all those ballots that are being verified, and this is a pretty high figure.”

“What we can see from here is that most of the people who were rejected are people who voted in groups – so some envelopes were delivered within a package and at the moment of verification if only one of them did not meet the certain conditions “then the rule is that the whole package should be rejected”, said Bejtullahu.

“Other cases of rejection are when other persons are not registered in the voter list for the 2021 elections, if they were registered in 2019 and did not know that they should be registered again.”

Bejtullahu further said that “GERMIN” describes as a lack of information to citizens on how to vote the entire percentage of rejection in these elections.

“We consider all this percentage of rejection as a lack of information of persons on how to vote. We as an organization have made a campaign “Diaspora Voton” but this was not enough as the CEC has not made a campaign for voters to clearly understand the whole process.

Vetëvendosje Movement has emerged the winner of the early elections for the Assembly of Kosovo that were held on Sunday, February 14th.

VV won the majority of municipalities, even in some of them winning 60 percent of the vote according to the preliminary results published by the CEC.

Vetëvendosje won the capital Prishtina with 64.09%, Gjilan with 63.24%, Mitrovica South with 63.04%, Vushtrri with 60.08%, Ferizaj with 60.59%.

Without conditional votes of the diaspora and people with special needs, Lëvizja Vetëvendosje counts 378 thousand 550 votes, which in percentage falls to 47.85% of the total votes.

The second in these elections turned out to be the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), with 17.24% of the vote.

Third was the Democratic League of Kosovo with 13.10% of the vote, followed by the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), with 7.39% of the vote.

Recall that the Social Democratic Initiative failed to cross the electoral threshold.

In Sunday’s election this party received only 2.58% of the vote./express