COVID-19 pandemic in North Macedonia

Three suspects in the murder of a 14-year-old girl from Skopje and a 74-year-old man from Veles have been detained, the Ministry of Internal Affairs in North Macedonia announced late last night. Today, the Minister of the Interior, Oliver Spasovski, said that two more people are being sought, one of whom is said to have gone first to Belgrade and then to Bulgaria.

North Macedonia's police said it had dispatched patrols to keep an eye on the premises of an undisclosed hotel in Skopje where the group of 38 members of a little-known ultra-conservative Jewish sect called Lev Tahor was admitted on Tuesday.

The Public Prosecution said on Monday that its teams are now analysing physical evidence from the scene of last Wednesday's fire in the town of Tetovo that claimed the lives of 14 people at a hospital for COVID-19 patients.

At Thursday's emergency session, after Wednesday's hospital inferno in the town of Tetovo, North Macedonia's government decided to accept help offered by its NATO allies in investigating the cause of the fire that claimed the lives of 14 COVID patients.