OREANDA-NEWS. On Wednesday night, the National Coordinating Council for Infectious Diseases under the government of Montenegro declared a COVID-19 epidemic throughout the country due to an increase in the incidence.

The Institute for Public Health in Podgorica said on Tuesday evening that over the past day, 612 people have been tested, 98 of them turned out to be infected with coronavirus. There have been no deaths in the last 24 hours. Since the resumption of the epidemic in June, 26 people died; at present, there are 1,920 infected patients.

The authorities introduce mandatory wearing of masks outdoors and indoors, limit mass gatherings with maximum of 40 people in open space, and 20 indoors. Other quarantine measures are extended until later dates, August 6 and August 30.

The Montenegrin government insists that the deaths from COVID-19 are the result of infections imported from neighboring countries. New patients were identified in June, despite the fact that in the second half of May, the Montenegrin authorities declared victory over the epidemic.