Another 416 people get coronavirus in Serbia, 2 die: Half of those infected from Belgrade

A graph showing the number of coronavirus cases in Serbia from March 6 until October 22; Illustration: Nikola Jovanovic

In the last 24 hours 6,715 people hav been tested for coronavirus in Serbia, of which 416 were positive. Two people have died.

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Half of the positives are from Belgrade.

There are 24 patients on ventilators.

So far, 781 people have died.

Of those tested, 6.20 percent were infected.

A graph showing the coronavirus death toll in Serbia from March 20 until October 22; Illustration: Nikola Jovanovic

So far, a total of 1,256,531 people have been tested, and 37,536 were positive.

The majority of infected people are in Belgrade, 218 (52.4%), followed by Valjevo with 20, Kragujevac 16, Novi Sad with 11, Vranje 8, Loznica, Prijepolje and Trstenik 7, Aleksandrovac, Mionica, Kraljevo, Zrenjanin, Smederevo with 6, Merošina 5, while other towns have fewer cases.

At today's session of the Crisis HQ for the fight against coronavirus, the members only made a decision to further tighten the control of measures, and to start applying new, antigen tests for coronavirus in Serbia. This decision, namely, is not new, it was made on August 21, only these tests will start to be applied now.

(Telegraf.rs)