For the International Labor Day, known as the holiday of May 1, 53 thousand Kosovar workers are spending the holiday in Albania. The official holiday of May 1, which was on Saturday and the Orthodox Easter holiday on Sunday, for these two official holidays at the weekend, the state institutions will rest on Monday and Tuesday, reports KosovaPress. For these four days of rest, according to the Kosovo Police, 53 thousand 588 citizens have crossed the border with Albania.
For the holiday of May 1 in every country of the world are organized protests for workers’ rights, in Kosovo there was no protest organized by BSPK due to restrictive measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19, but were organized by several other unions. As a result of the pandemic, 11 deaths from SARS CoV-2 positive were reported on Friday, 5 on Saturday, and 5 on Sunday.