"The situation is not extraordinary but catastrophic"

He added that the coronavirus does not recognize "Serbs doing things out of spite".
According to him, the situation in the country must be urgently resolved with the most rigorous measures and a large coverage of vaccination in the shortest possible time.
"I believe that next week we will be in a position to assess that this measure gave some results at the beginning, because we saw it at vaccination points, but it is still far from what we want to achieve," he said.
Tiodorovi believes that we must introduce very restrictive measures for 10 days, which will apply to everything except food supply facilities, pharmacies and gas stations, and everything else must be restrictive. He noticed that young people gather because they want to keep the night life and provide themselves with a peaceful stay, but it is not peaceful to be in a big crowd in the late hours and that there are a lot of full night clubs and restaurants that communal inspectors cannot control.
Tiodorovic singled out cultural events such as theaters to adhere to the prescribed measures of physical distance and wearing masks, but that this is not the case in shopping malls and public transport.
"We need greater and stricter control with punishment, which is very rigorous, so that in 10 days, even though those 10 days are not enough, we can achieve certain progress and create a controlled situation," he said.

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From early July, we are proposing COVID-19 passes for all people, which will be valid for 24 hours, and that is no discrimination and no threat to human rights if other conditions, testing, antigen tests are respected, said Tiodorovi.
"I would still appeal to our citizens to be vaccinated if we want to live like in Italy, Denmark, Norway,...