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No significant spread of coronavirus in schools

Belgrade, 9 October 2020

Deputy Director of the Serbian Public Health Institute “Dr Milan Jovanovic Batut” Darija Kisic Tepavcevic stated today at a press briefing of the COVID-19 Crisis Response Team that since 5 October coronavirus has been detected in 17 children, of whom nine are pupils and eight secondary school students.

She said that currently one child and one mother are hospitalised at the Clinical Hospital Centre “Dr Dragisa Misovic” and added that over the past 24 hours most new cases, 40 of them, were identified in the population from 30 to 40 years of age.

Over the last few days we noticed a trend of growth of cases where the presence of the infection was detected through laboratory testing, and the good thing is that this trend is not accompanied by a growth in the number of hospitalisations and patients on ventilatory support, Kisic Tepavcevic explained.

Director of the Office for Information Technologies and E-Government Mihajlo Jovanovic announced that a new integrated system of state bodies will start working next week, the aim of which is to make communication with citizens more efficient and electronic.

He added that the main goal is that various information systems of state bodies get connected mutually in order to render epidemiological supervision more efficient.

For example, the information on entry of a citizen into Serbia, regardless of whether the citizen is a Serbian or foreign national or whether they are infected with coronavirus, will be sent to competent state bodies, and possible supervision measures will be electronically generated, pronounced and submitted to the citizens, Jovanovic specified.