"No room for mitigating measures"; Crisis Staff to decide on New Year's Eve measures

Members of the Crisis Staff should decide on the measures that will be valid during the upcoming holidays, bearing in mind that the medical part of the Crisis Staff strongly opposes any celebrations, while the economic part considers that the economic losses are great.
While Serbia is waiting for the Government's decision, many are planning a New Year's Eve. Epidemiologists warn that this would flood hospitals, Deutsche Welle writes.
At the sessions of the Crisis Staff, New Year's Eve has been talked about for days, but the final decision is still pending. According to the latest announcement by Prime Minister Ana Brnabic, the decision will be announced on Tuesday (December 29th), just two days before the celebration.
Meanwhile, footage of illegal parties is "blooming" on social networks.
Marko (real name known to the editorial office) and his company are following what the Government will decide, but they have already decided: they rented an apartment for a party on New Year's Eve. "We are the final year of high school. This is the last New Year we will spend together, and we planned to travel somewhere earlier," Marko told DW.
"We haven't hung out like before for a long time, but we are divided into groups for fear of the virus. So we made the decision to find an apartment through the Booking portal for that night, which was not easy either, but a lot of them were issued. There won't be many of us. but at least a few of us will be together that night", he says, adding that some of his friends are still waiting for their parents to allow them to celebrate.
That is how Marko and his friends will enter the gray zone. Namely, if the Government does not drastically change something, organized gatherings of more than five people...

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