Health Min: Belgrade breaks record – 5,600 tests for coronavirus over 24 hours

"The number of check-ups and those who must be hospitalised is on the rise across the country. The figure will be higher in the next days, and we hope the new measures will bring results in ten days,” he said after meeting the heads of COVID-19 hospitals.

“We have redistributed capacities, we have redistributed people, working both in COVID-19 and in the no-COVID-19 system,” Loncar added.

 He said that not all patients from Belgrade would necessarily be treated in the capital, but could be sent to other cities’ hospitals.

Loncar warned that the number of infected young people with serious symptoms also rose and that 1,000 medical staff had been positive for the coronavirus, out of whom, with 52 had been hospitalised.

At the same time, Predrag Kon, an epidemiologist and a member of the anti-epidemic Crisis Team, added that 'a slight fall' in the number of infected on Monday was due to usually fewer testings on Sundays, but that on Tuesday the figure was expected to rise again and go over 4,000 case.