The Effect Of Covid-19 Pandemic in Kosovo Prishtina CENTRAL GOVERNMENT'S RESPONSE POLICY REACTIONS To address the threats coming from the pandemic and contain the outburst of COVID-19, the policy response undertaken by the Government of the Republic of Kosovo includes a response plan in three main affected areas, respectively health care, economy and education. Main actions undertaken in these three areas include the following policies in the table below, Table1. RESPOND: THE HEALTH CARE FRONT To address and prevent the outburst of the COVID­19 pandemic in Kosovo, much of the efforts in the health care front have focused in'flatten the curve' strategy and capacity-building to enhance the health care system.'Flatten the curve,' introduced as a world-wide public health strategy, was implemented in Kosovo with the aim of managing the number of infected cases not to overload the health care system. Certain mitigation techniques 3 https://www.oecd.org/south-east-europe/COVID-19-Crisis-in­Kosovo.pdf under this strategy include movement restrictions, mandatory masks and social distancing. Coupled with the isolation and the restrictive measures, the Government aimed at flattering the curve of the infection by working to keep a low number of infected cases. Given the low health care system capacity, much of the strategy was based on facilitating the day-to-day management of the COVid-19 cases and building additional capacity to accommodate and treat new cases. 3 Main responsive and protective mechanisms adopted by the Government of the Republic of Kosovo in the health care front include: 6