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It will not be enough to shut down almost everything in Serbia for just five days, it will take at least two weeks for measures against the coronavirus epidemic to be effective, said Predrag Kon, Serbia’s best-known epidemiology expert.
The epidemiologist told the Serbian Public Service Television (RTS) that the Serbian government had closed almost all stores in the country from Wednesday to Sunday, accepting only the advice of the crisis team tasked with dealing with the coronavirus epidemic, with only grocery stores, gas stations. and open pharmacies. According to Predrag Kon, these measures should be extended for at least one more week to have a tangible and visible result.
The number of coronavirus infections recorded in Serbia increased by 5,201 to 525,994 on Wednesday, from 553 to 78,340 in Kosovo, from 999 to 113,617 in North Macedonia, from 537 to 84,700 in Montenegro and from 1,606 in Bosnia and Herzegovina. 146,237.
The number of deaths from the epidemic in the last 24 hours increased by 31 to 4,768 in Serbia, 8 in 1727 in Kosovo, 24 in 3,362 in North Macedonia, 15 in 1,152 in Montenegro, and 53 in 5,829 in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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