Montenegro First European Country To Announce It Is ‘Corona-Free’

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Montenegro, the last country in Europe to be infected by the novel coronavirus, has become the first European country to eradicate the virus , the country’s health minister announced Monday.

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“In the days ahead, responsible behavior and shared health care will be our trump card to continue to be proud holders of the title of ‘corona free’ state that has shown that it knows how to face and fight a dangerous enemy that has conquered the entire planet,” Kenan Hrapovic told the state TV.

He said the ministry and health care system will focus on monitoring developments and prepare to respond to indicators of COVID-19.

The Institute of Public Health of Montenegro on Sunday announced that 68 days after the the first COVID-19 case was recorded, Montenegro is currently free of coronavirus patients.

The institution said that its laboratories completed the analysis of 140 samples during the day, among which there were no new cases of infection, making it 20 days without any infections in the country

“The day has come and we have no more cases and we can say that we are a country where nobody is infected with coronavirus,” said Boban Mugosa, the director of the Institute of Public Health.

According to the officials, 324 people contracted the virus in Montenegro, and nine of them have died.

Closure of borders, prevention of public gatherings, closing schools, facemasks and social distancing seem to have been the key to the low instances of the virus which has killed 350,000 people worldwide. Montenegro also controversially publicized the names and addressed of those in isolation and handed heavy fines to people violating distancing and hygiene regulations.

The country, which relies heavily on foreign tourism and has been hard-hit by the cessation of international tourism, seeks now to open its borders to countries which have less than 25 cases per 100,000 people. This would at present allow people from Croatia, Albania, Slovenia, Germany, Greece and presumably Israel which had also reached this landmark.


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