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The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Serbia thus rose to 10.438.
The total number of victims is now 225, and the mortality rate is 2.16 percent. 837 people were hospitalized, and a total of 20 patients were on respirators.
The number of cured is 4.301.
In the last 24 hours, 5.873 samples were tested, and a total of 168.670.

Bulgaria is the country with the lowest life expectancy in the European Union, according to Eurostat data for 2018, quoted by the National Statistical Institute.

The longest lifespan have people in Spain - 83.5 years and in Italy - 83.4 years, according to statistics for EU countries.

Greece applied for membership to the International Center for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD), the Migration Ministry announced in a press release on Tuesday.

The World Day for Safety and Health at Work is celebrated anually on 28 April. For the first time, the International Labor Organization (ILO) celebrates this day in 2001.

According to ILO figures, each year, 2.2 million workers worldwide die because of work-related accidents and occupational diseases. Losses account for 4% of global gross domestic product.

From May 1 this year, depending on the epidemiological situation, the Government of Serbia may take a decision to mitigate the measures, that is, allow the activity of transporting passengers in international air traffic from the airport in Serbia.

A municipal worker wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) disinfects the area around Athens' Metropolitan Cathedral, during the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak ahead of the Greek Orthodox Easter, in Athens, Friday. [Alkis Konstantinidis/Reuters]

Seven tonnes of medical protective equipment, consisting of 100 thousand protective masks type FFP2 and FFP3, are being brought to the country from Turkey on Wednesday with a C-27J Spartan aircraft of the Romanian Air Force, informs a statement from the Ministry of National Defense (MApN).

Prime Minister Boyko Borissov and members of the government held an extraordinary meeting today via videoconference. The cabinet approved a contract with the Chinese National Foreign Trade Pharmaceutical Corporation for the supply of personal protective equipment and medical equipment.

Bucharest, March 17 /Agerpres/ - The perception of the employees in healthcare is that the healthcare system is not ready yet to fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, the biggest weakness being the serious deficiencies in terms of personal protective equipment, says the "Health Solidarity" Federation, which published a survey on Tuesday in which employees from the system participated.

In its continuing efforts to protect citizens and to coordinate the response to COVID-19, the Commission has taken immediate steps to protect the availability of supplies of personal protective equipment (PPE), by requiring that exports of such equipment outside of the European Union are subject to an export authorisation by Member States, the European Commission said in a press release.