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In the last 24 hours, 7.730 people were tested.
There are 5.304 patients on hospital treatment, and 199 of them on respirators.
In Serbia, a total of 2.476.551 people have been tested for the coronavirus since the outbreak pof the pandemic, while 372.533 cases of infection have been confirmed.

As many as 2,156 new cases of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 in Romania were recorded in the last 24 hours following more than 15,000 tests nationwide, the Strategic Communication Group (GCS), the official novel coronavirus communication task force, reported on Sunday. These are cases of patients that have not previously tested positive.

Greek health authorities started vaccinating people aged over 85 against Covid-19 on Saturday, while continuing to inoculate doctors and nurses.

The first person from that age group to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech jab in Athens' Evangelismos Hospital was a woman called Kassiani, who will turn 91 in a few days. She was followed by Irene, aged 90.

Ljubljana – Slovenian MEPs expressed support for the joint procurement of coronavirus vaccines by the EU for member states at a debate organised by the European Parliament’s Office on Friday, but they were more reserved when it comes to the idea of a health passport for those who have already been vaccinated.

US pharmaceutical company Pfizer has confirmed it will temporarily reduce deliveries to Europe of its Covid-19 vaccine while it upgrades production capacity to 2 billion vaccine doses per year.

Six European Union governments asked the executive EU Commission in a letter on Friday to pressure Pfizer-BioNTech, "to ensure stability and transparency of timely deliveries" of vaccines agianst Covid-19.

Romania's National Committee on the Coordination of COVID-19 Vaccination has reported that in the last 24 hours, 16,057 people have been immunised with the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, according to data provided by the National Public Health Institute on the National Electronic Register of Vaccinations application.

The daily bulletin on the coronavirus epidemic showed 610 new cases on Friday, which raised the overall number of infections to 147,860.

The National Organization for Public Health (EODY) reported 34 deaths on Friday which drove the total number to 5,421.

The number of intubated patients in the country stood at 319 (average age was 69), while 1,019 have left ICU.

Greece's vaccination program is going as fast as the delivery of new Covid-19 jabs allow it to go, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told lawmakers on Friday, adding that there will be a delay in the delivery of Pfizer vaccines this month.

In the last 24 hours, 10.961 people were tested.
There are 196 patients on respirators.
The number of hospitalized in Serbia is 5.409.