COVID-19: The Situation in Serbia is Catastrophic at Times

In Serbia, certificates for restaurants become mandatory after 8 pm on Monday. However, most Serbs believe the measures are not enough. More than 56 per cent of Serbs have been vaccinated, but the number of new infections is high and hospitals are full.

They estimated that Belgrade's fairgrounds would be spacious enough to accommodate those wishing to be immunized. It rains at the beginning of the weekday, and there are enough people to fill all the booths.

But doctors are not impressed. They are used to long queues. More than 56 per cent of Serbs have a vaccine, and for some it is time for a third dose. However, the last covid wave for them is very heavy.

"Currently, the situation is critical and at times catastrophic. Which means that sometimes there are no places to accommodate patients. For a month and a half now we have over 6,000 new infections on a weekly basis," said Dr. Predrag Kon, chief epidemiologist, Crisis headquarters of the Republic of Serbia.

The fifth wave is once again filling the capacity of the new hospital, built only for covid patients 11 months ago.

"This hospital was built in just 4 months, it is the largest in Europe, it has 930 beds in intensive and semi-intensive wards," added Dr. Snezana Adzic, director of the Covid Hospital in Batajnica.

The hospital is located on the outskirts of Belgrade, and two more covid hospitals have been built in the country. But now all three are on the brink, it is already being considered which of the other hospitals will also switch to covid mode. And the oxygen plant in the yard of the one in Bataynitsa is working at full speed.

"Our worst victims are precisely this delta variant of the coronavirus. And they all need oxygen. We waste...

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