Over the past two months, there has been an increase in the number of laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Montenegro, and in the month of July, 629 new positive cases were diagnosed, the Institute for Public Health (IJZ) announced.
The IJZ said that, from the experience gained in previous years, it is clear that COVID-19 still does not follow clear seasonal patterns like other respiratory viruses (e.g. flu) that are activated during late autumn, winter and early spring.
"Laboratories of the Institute of Public Health of Montenegro (IJZCG), other public and private laboratories that deal with the diagnosis of the new coronavirus infection during the period from 01.07.2024 to 31.07.2024 completed the analysis and submitted the results for 5147 samples to the IJZCG to the coronavirus," the announcement states.
"During the reporting period of the IJZCG, one death related to SARS-CoV-2 infection was reported, in a 68-year-old person from the municipality of Danilovgrad. The total number of deaths related to COVID-19 infection in Montenegro since the beginning of the pandemic is 2.849. Since the beginning epidemic events (March 2020), the total number of registered cases of infection with the new corona virus in Montenegro is 297.340," the announcement reads.
"In accordance with the increase in registered infections, we advise all persons who develop symptoms of respiratory diseases (cough, fever, body aches) to stay at home in order to reduce the possibility of transmitting the virus to susceptible persons, or to wear a protective mask if they have to go out in public for the nose and mouth (up to 10 days from the onset of symptoms or from the date of laboratory confirmation of infection). Based on the information available to the Institute for Public Health of Montenegro, there is no increase in the frequency of severe forms of the disease hospitals, clinical-hospital centers and the Clinical Center registered 24 infections with the SARS-CoV 2 virus, one patient has a more severe clinical form of the disease due to an already present comorbidity," stated the IJZ.
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