{"id":23302,"date":"2021-10-21T21:13:06","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T19:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=23302"},"modified":"2021-10-21T22:10:25","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T20:10:25","slug":"378-of-albanians-have-been-infected-with-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/378-of-albanians-have-been-infected-with-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"37,8% of Albanians say they have been infected with COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>37.8% of the Albanian population say they have been infected with COVID-19. Converted to actual numbers, that means that nearly 830.000 citizens say they have been exposed to and contracted the deadly virus.<\/p>\n<p>These were the results gathered by a poll conducted during the month of September, by Euronews Albania\u2019s weekly, Barometer and surveying agency MRB, which were used to build a real-time map of the most affected areas.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of citizens who said they&#8217;d experienced a COVID infection (29.3%) said that they had contracted the virus sometime in September 2020 \u2013 December 2020.<\/p>\n<p>In Tirana, 42.8% of citizens declared that they had been infected with the coronavirus. On a regional scale, the highest number of infections was observed in Central Albania.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-23304\" src=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/shperndarja-696x391-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"875\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/shperndarja-696x391-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/shperndarja-696x391-1-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/shperndarja-696x391-1.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 875px) 100vw, 875px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Of those infected, 60% said they experienced a few mild symptoms, whereas 17% said they\u2019d experienced severe forms of the virus and serious accompanying symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>When asked whether someone in their immediate family, including first cousins, had passed away due to a COVID infection, 7.9% answered yes.<\/p>\n<p>According to data published by the Ministry of Health, since the outbreak of the pandemic in our country, there has been a total of 2.855 fatalities attributed to COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>The poll conducted by Euronews Albania\u2019s Barometer in collaboration with surveying agency, MRB, gathered data by conducting face-to-face interviews with 1.000 citizens from rural and urban areas in the country, from September 21 &#8211; October 3.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-23305\" src=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/simptomat-696x390-2-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"743\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/simptomat-696x390-2-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/simptomat-696x390-2-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/simptomat-696x390-2.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 743px) 100vw, 743px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/programs\/barometer\/2021\/10\/21\/nearly-1-3-of-albanians-refuse-to-get-vaccinated\/\">Nearly 1\/3 of Albanians refuse to get vaccinated<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/programs\/barometer\/2021\/10\/21\/covid-death-count-doctors-reveal-why-actual-number-is-likely-higher\/\">COVID death count, doctors reveal why actual number is likely higher<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>37.8% of the Albanian population say they have been infected with COVID-19. Converted to actual numbers, that means that nearly 830.000 citizens say they have been exposed to and contracted the deadly virus. These were the results gathered by a poll conducted during the month of September, by Euronews Albania\u2019s weekly, Barometer and surveying agency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":23306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[150,151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>37,8% of Albanians say they have been infected with COVID-19 - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/378-of-albanians-have-been-infected-with-covid-19\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"37,8% of Albanians say they have been infected with COVID-19 - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"37.8% of the Albanian population say they have been infected with COVID-19. 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