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The director of the Serbian Clinical Center (KCS), Milika Ashanin, stated that one in three people in Serbia who are infected with the coronavirus requires hospitalization, and that about 20 percent of those infected have a more serious clinical picture.
Speaking on Pink TV, Ashanin said that between five and one percent of those infected require intensive care and some form of ventilation.
He assessed that the epidemiological situation in Serbia is critical and threatens to spiral out of control.
“Our predictions are that this will continue. Only by respecting the measures will we be able to curb the epidemic and reduce it to a tolerable measure,” Ashanin said.
He added that he is encouraged by the introduction of new measures and the strengthening of control over their implementation, because, as he assessed, “the next two or three weeks can be crucial.”
Stating that it is not possible to rely on herd immunity as a prevention strategy, immunologist Srdja Jankovic said that countries that “played with that idea, saw how devastating it is.”
“In Sweden, the second wave of the epidemic is no less severe than elsewhere. Only when the vast majority of the population is infected can we say that herd immunity provides protection,” Jankovic said.
He stated that since the beginning of the epidemic in Serbia, the goal was to avoid infecting citizens.
“In China today, there are only sporadic cases, not because of herd immunity, but because they so rigorously suppressed the epidemic wherever it appeared, and now they only control the introduction into the country.
However, it is impossible to live locked up in the long term, so we must fight the epidemic by protecting ourselves and others from infection, “said a member of the crisis staff of the government for the suppression of the epidemic.
Speaking about the epidemiological situation in schools, Janković said that the goal is for children to attend classes “as long as possible.”
“We are not going to close because the greatest number of infections of students and teachers did not occur in the school itself. Where there is transmission in the school, there is a local reaction because we try to preserve the effect of staying in school on the psychophysical development of children Jankovic said.
Read more about kovid-19 and the consequences of the pandemic in the country and the world on the page. Coronavirus.
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