North Macedonia Health Care Minister Venko Filipce said on Wednesday that seven more people had died of coronavirus-related ailments over the previous 24 hours.

The minister said in a Facebook post that 125 new cases had been reported, adding that there are 1,536 new cases including 203 patients in hospital eight of who are on ventilators.

He wrote that the number of COVID-19 deaths stands at 164 with the number of diagnosed cases at 3,364 and the number of patients who recovered at 1,664.