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Total number of confirmed cases now stands at 2.666.
That number includes 1.705 patients in hospitals, 112 of who are on respirators.
A total of 10.761 people have been tested for coronavirus in Serbia to date, including the 1.135 people who were tested over the previous 24 hours.
Unfortunately, in the last 24 hours we have 4 (four) more deaths, or 65 in total.

My temperature continued to rise, however, so I called the numbers I had found on the official Serbian covid19.rs website. The complaints I had read online were right. It took an hour of calling before I finally got through to the Ministry of Health. I was told just to monitor my temperature.

The measures imposed by the authorities to curb the spread of COVID-19 have been tightened up several times since they were first imposed in mid-March. The changes have been announced at special press conferences, usually in the evening, and then published in the Official Gazette, often with slight alterations.

A Turkish military aircraft carrying medical aid for the fight against the novel coronavirus departed from the capital Ankara for five Balkan countries on April 8.

From midnight Bulgaria officially closed its borders to third countries at all border checkpoints, no matter what the vehicles are.

The measure effectively applies to our borders with Turkey, Northern Macedonia and Serbia and will remain in force until April 17th. An important clarification is that this ban does not affect nationals of EU Member States and their families.

He added that 24-hour isolation would not be required if existing measures were respected.
Tiodorovic, a member of the Health Crisis Staff, pointed out that it is a very important truth that Serbia was the first in Europe to establish such a form of organizing and believes that it was the right move.

Ever since it broke away from Serbia, Kosovo has come under pressure to preserve its multi-ethnic character. But minority communities still struggle to exercise their rights.