The COVID-19 pandemic was affirmed to have arrived at Albania on 8 March 2020, a dad and child who had gone from Florence, Italy. Starting at 25 June 2020, have been accounted for 2,192 affirmed instances of COVID-19 in Albania, bringing about 49 passings; 1,250 individuals have recovered.On 25 February, Skender Brataj, leader of the National Medical Emergency Center (NMEC), reported conventions in the event that COVID-19 spread to Albania, clarifying that residents that presume they have gotten the infection should call the assigned National Emergency Number 127. He educated every single Albanian resident showing up from China, Singapore, Iran, South Korea, or Italy to call a similar number, so a clinical gathering with defensive suits can accompany them to a contaminations medical clinic for testing, with all examples sent to the Public Health Institute. Around the same time, Ogerta Manastirliu, Minister of Health and Social Protection met with the Technical Expert Committee, and chose to build its clinic financial plan by $1 million, to expand the supply of individual assurance equipment. Brataj likewise declared the development of a team, while attesting that COVID-19 had not yet shown up in Albania. He determined that residents originating from influenced territories would be observed for 14 days and rewarded as presumed cases, and rewarded with vitamins. On 8 March, the Albanian Council of Ministers halted all flights and ships with isolated regions of northern Italy until 3 April, stopped all schools for about fourteen days, requested crossing out of all huge open social events, and asked sports alliances to drop booked matches. Albanian Health Minister Ogerta Manastirliu reported that anybody entering Albania from isolated regions of Italy should self-separate, or face discipline in the event that they neglect to do so. Prime Minister Edi Rama proclaimed a "war" on COVID-19. A huge number of new measures were reported, including a 72-hour time limit during which just transportation of essential needs, for example, food and medication would be allowed, a three-month credit occasion, and the constrained conclusion of article of clothing manufacturing plants and call focuses (which are subject to the Italian market). The police and the military assembled and set up an aggregate of 70 checkpoints on that day, spread all through the nation to ensure individuals were conforming to self-isolate prerequisites. At checkpoints, names are checked against a database of who has been in Italy or Greece since 27 February. Police in certain pieces of the nation, including Fier, started halting vehicles with outside tags. Fier continued to constrain the conclusion of most bars and bistros, while Tirana and Durrës suspended inconclusively all open vehicle and shut all bistros, bars, cafés, just as rec centers and government workplaces with open confronting counters. All banks were shut from the 12 to 16 March, yet ATMs stayed open.