Kosovo Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti said that he has contracted Covid-19 and will self-isolate at home for two weeks.

Kosovo Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti talks to media outside the parliament building in Pristina, Kosovo on June 3, 2020. — Reuters/File
Kosovo Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti talks to media outside the parliament building in Pristina, Kosovo on June 3, 2020. — Reuters/File

“I don’t have symptoms except a very mild cough,” Hoti said, according to Reuters.

Hoti’s government has faced criticism for not doing enough to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus, with the small Balkan country reporting a sharp increase in cases in the past few days — including 13 deaths on Sunday.

Around 9,000 people have been infected with the new coronavirus and 249 have died since mid-March, when the first cases with the virus were reported in the small Balkan country.

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