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The epidemiologist and member of the crisis staff of the Serbian government for the fight against the coronavirus epidemic, Predrag Kon, said tonight that it was encouraging that the proportion of infected people from Belgrade was reduced from 50 to 30 percent in the total number of newly infected people in Serbia.
Photo: BETAPHOTO / GOVERNMENT OF SERBIA SLOBODAN MILJEVICKon told Serbian Radio Television (RTS) that the current situation was “unfavorable, extraordinary and partly catastrophic”, but that for five days the participation of Belgrade has not exceeded 2,200 registered cases, which is the maximum so far.
“(In Belgrade, the virus has reached that maximum, now the question is how it will continue,” he said.
Commenting on the funeral of the patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC), Irinej, Kon said that the consequences of the presence of citizens will be seen in a week.
He specified that tomorrow will be a session of the Crisis Staff on the measures introduced and the proposed measures that have been “postponed”, such as the transition to online classes.
“If a decision will be made, I can’t say anything in advance,” Conn said.
The director of the office of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Serbia, Marijan Ivanuša, said that Serbia is the second in Europe in the number of new infections in the last seven days.
“It is aggravating that the number of patients is increasing. In this epidemic, the numbers are always late.” People who were diagnosed today were infected a week or more ago, “he said.
Ivanuša stressed that only wearing protective masks would slow the spread of the epidemic, and when only 60 percent of citizens wear masks, they threaten to “shut down” the entire country.
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