April 2 (SeeNews) - North Macedonia's health ministry said that the number of cases of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the country increased to 354, as the death toll reached 11.
Some 25 out of 257 coronavirus tests that have been carried out in the past 24 hours have been positive, the ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.
The number of recoveries has increased to 17, health minister Venko Filipce said in a Twitter post.
In mid-March, North Macedonia's president Stevo Pendarovski declared a 30-day nationwide state of emergency over the coronavirus outbreak.
The country also imposed a curfew on all citizens from 9 pm to 5 am. On weekends, the curfew is maintained between 4 pm and 5 am.
In addition, people under 18 are not allowed to leave their homes from 9 pm until noon the following day, while people over 67 years of age are restricted from leaving their homes between 11 am and 5 am the next day.