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Europe’s Youngest Nation to Boost Testing Amid Covid-19 Hit

  • Kosovo tops the tables for virus fatalities over the past week
  • Government collapse at peak of pandemic undermined response
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Kosovo is one of the deadliest places in the world right now for coronavirus.

The Balkan state, where more than half of the 1.8 million population is under the age of 25, has recorded 54.2 fatalities per million people resulting from Covid-19 in the past week -- just ahead of second-placed Colombia, according to Bloomberg calculations based on data from Johns Hopkins University.