First aid

For days, the number of patients in Serbia exceeds 7.000, and the number of examinations and hospitalized patients is also increasing. A new record for the number of deaths was set on Saturday.
State Secretary of the Ministry of Health Mirsad Djerlek said that the situation in the whole country is difficult and uncertain.

The three beaches in Sunny Beach - north, central and south, are in good condition and ready to welcome the first tourists.

A number of 433 persons have tested positive for the novel coronavirus so far, and two persons died, the Strategic Communication Group (GCS) informed on Sunday. Of them, 64 were declared cured and discharged, 47 in Timisoara, 11 in Bucharest, 3 in Craiova, one in Iasi and 2 in Constanta. Since the latest information broadcast, 66 new cases of COVID-19 infection have been recorded.

Pro Romania deputy Mihaela Hunca told a press conference on Friday that medical offices need to be set up in all educational units with legal personality in the country in order to prevent the spread of diseases among students.

A veterinarian in eastern Turkey has invented a first-aid device to prevent cattle from dying due to stomach problems.     

Tragedy struck the islands of Crete and Rhodes on Wednesday afternoon after an 8-year-old girl from Israel and two French sisters aged 16 and 19 drowned in separate incidents.

The Israeli girl drowned in the swimming pool of the hotel she was staying at with her family at the resort of Hersonissos on Crete.

Authorities on the southeastern Aegean island of Rhodes are investigating the death of two sisters in a hotel swimming pool the previous evening.

The two girls have been identified as French tourists who were holidaying on the island with their families. They were aged 16 and 19 years old.

A 12-year-old boy died in Thessaloniki early on Monday after choking to death on a sausage.

According to Skai, the boy had woken up in the middle of the night for a snack and woke his mother when he started choking.

The boy's parents called an ambulance which transferred the 12-year-old to the nearest hospital.

Rescue workers recovered the body of a man aged around 50 on the slopes of Mount Olympus on Saturday.

The death of the man, who had been climbing the mountain with members of a mountaineering group from Halkidiki, appears to have been related to an existing condition though a coroner was to determine the precise cause of death.

A seven-year-old girl has died after being found unconscious in a hotel swimming pool on Rhodes.

She was holidaying on the island with the family.

The incident occurred Wednesday afternoon in the pool of a large hotel in the south of the island.

The girl was rushed to hospital by ambulance, where despite the efforts of medical staff she died a few hours later.