Deputy Director of the Institute "Dr Milan Jovanovic Batut" Darija Kisic Tepavcevic announced that there are 741 cases of coronavirus infection registered in Serbia so far, with three new fatal cases registered.
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Deputy Director of the Institute "Dr Milan Jovanovic Batut" Darija Kisic Tepavcevic announced that there are 741 cases of coronavirus infection registered in Serbia so far, with three new fatal cases registered.
Kisic Tepavcevic said that 376 samples were tested since the last survey, of which 82 were positive and 294 were negative for the novel coronavirus.
She stated that a total of 2,462 persons were tested in the national reference laboratory of the Torlak Institute, which meet the case definition criteria.
In the last 24 hours, three fatalities have been registered, which are related to COVID-19, said Kisic Tepavcevic, specifying that a patient 62 years old died in the Clinical Centre of Vojvodina and two women aged 86 and 82 in Clinical Hospital Centre Dr Dragisa Misovic, who had associated chronic diseases.
According to her, at the moment there are 55 people using the ventilator, and that the zero patient in Serbia was cured, and that more than 50 patients had a double negative test.
Epidemiologist Predrag Kon estimated that the hospital at the Fairgrounds is absolutely the best solution Serbia could make, stating that everything else would be a serious mistake.
Asked by journalists whether the profession is asked about the measures to be taken against coronavirus, he said that experts recommended the measures, and that the authorities make the decisions.
He also said that the government deserves praise for unreserved support for the profession.
This is a challenge for all of us, this is a state of war, he emphasised, saying that the situation must be taken very seriously and that all measures against the spread of the virus must be respected.
Concerning other measures, Kon pointed out that the profession would be behind everything that entails reducing contacts, including 24-hour absolute closure, as we are approaching the days when the number of patients, and later the number of deaths, rose sharply in other countries.
At the same time, Kon said that out of the total number of coronavirus patients, about seven percent were medical professionals, making it very important that they have sufficient protective equipment and that it is properly used.
Doctors were given medical equipment and it was a priority, he confirmed, adding that in some cases it turned out that healthcare workers had contracted the virus outside the hospital, and that there was no case of transmission from the healthcare worker to the patient.