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Serbia to face harder situation regarding epidemic in next days

Belgrade, 27 March 2020

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic stated today that in next two or three days the situation regarding coronavirus in Serbia will be considerably harder than now and that hospitals are already full.

Speaking at a press conference at the Palace of Serbia together with Prime Minister Ana Brnabic, held after a meeting of the Crisis Response Team to Curb Infectious Disease COVID-19, Vucic said that right now Serbia has 528 confirmed coronavirus cases, eight deaths, 302 patients are hospitalised, 42 have been released from hospital, while the average age of those who died is 66.

This is perhaps the most difficult day for Europe which is recording great losses and a huge number of coronavirus deaths, the President stated.

He called on citizens again to stay at home and not to ask for permissions to break the curfew. He underlined that all measures that have been put in place have the purpose of saving lives and not limiting freedoms.

Vucic said that it is becoming more and more difficult to purchase medical equipment on the world market and recalled that new medical aid arrived in our country last night.

The good thing is that coronavirus has not entered our gerontology centres, that the majority of those infected are still young people, and also the fact that the infected pregnant woman from Valjevo has given birth this morning to a healthy baby that was evaluated with grade nine out of ten, the President of Serbia said.

Vucic stated that the Serbian Army must guard gerontology centres and not let anyone in, because the fact that coronavirus entered those institutions is what caused the catastrophic situation in Italy and Spain.

Brnabic announced that the temporary hospital at the Belgrade Fairgrounds will begin receiving patients tomorrow at eight o'clock.

That is the next logical step in relation to mass testing. This is an offensive against COVID-19 - to test more people and send those with milder symptoms to temporary hospitals immediately, under medical supervision, the Prime Minister explained.

According to Brnabic, this is the most effective way to fight the virus, to cure these people, to protect their families, and to know after 14 or 28 days that they can return home and continue to fight together with all of us.

Brnabic said that we have been fighting coronavirus for 22 days and that two extremely difficult weeks are ahead of us, noting that we have concrete evidence that measures to prohibit movement for people over 65 have been effective.

Namely, in Serbia we have 25.2 percent of people over 60 registered with coronavirus, while in Italy this number is 57.9 percent, in the group of over 70 years of age in Serbia 9.1 percent of cases are registered, and in Italy 39.5 percent, and finally, in Serbia 2.4 percent are older than 80 and in Italy 18.8 percent.

The government is proud of these results and of its measure to completely ban the movement of people over 65 in urban areas and over 70 in rural areas, she said and underlined that we will need iron discipline in the next two weeks.

Brnabic noted that the state has launched an offensive against coronavirus in three ways - the first is mass testing, the second the creation of temporary hospitals, and the third full implementation and tightening of penal policy.

Author: Tanjug
Author: Tanjug