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More patients admitted to COVID hospitals than discharged

Belgrade, 23 October 2020

Deputy Director of the Serbian Public Health Institute "Dr Milan Jovanovic Batut" Darija Kisic Tepavcevic said today that 85 percent of the newly infected COVID patients over the past week are in the age group of up to 60, which indicates that the most at-risk population are those of working age and the younger population.

Kisic Tepavcevic stated at a press conference of the COVID-19 Crisis Response Team that in the last week, from 17 to 23 October, there were 2,396 laboratory confirmed cases, of which 1,185 from Belgrade.

By the number of newly registered cases, Belgrade is followed by Kragujevac, Valjevo, Novi Sad, Nis, Kraljevo, Vranje, Prijepolje, Trstenik, Sabac, Aleksandrovac, Loznica, Krusevac, Bor and Prokuplje.

She warned that we have potential carriers of infection all over the country, and explained that the number of hospitalisations is approximately 15 percent of all those infected and that moderately serious and severe cases require hospital treatment.

Over the past 10 days, 20 to 40 more patients have been admitted daily than discharged, she specified.

According to Kisic Tepavcevic, there are 530 patients hospitalised at the moment, of whom a third is at the Clinical Hospital Centre “Bezanijska Kosa”.

Head of "Bezanijska Kosa" Marija Zdravkovic pointed out that there are 155 COVID patients in this hospital, with the largest number of them having a moderately severe and a severe clinical picture.

She stated that there were 12 discharges today, including a patient who spent 41 days on a ventilator.

At the moment, the number of infected people that we detect is high, but for now there are fewer severe cases that respond poorly to therapy.