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epa09440316 Nurses moving a patient inside the intensive care unit (ICU) in the Clinic for Infectious Diseases, in Pristina, Kosovo, 01 September 2021. After a rapid increase in the number of newly infected with COVID-19, the Government adopted anti-COVID measures, postponed the beginning of the school year for primary and elementary grades by two weeks, ordered restaurants and bars to close after 09.30pm and imposed a curfew from 10.00pm to 5am. The Council of the European Union has removed the Kosovo, Montenegro and North Macedonia from its epidemiologically safe third countries list after a surge in the number of COVID-19 infections recorded recently in these territories. EPA/VALDRIN XHEMAJ