Serbian PM says half of adults inoculated, hospital chief warns numbers rising

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Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said on Thursday that just over half of the country’s adult population had been inoculated against the coronavirus while the head of a Belgrade COVID hospital warned that the number of new cases was rising daily.

Brnabic said in a Twitter post that 2,705,458 people or 50.1 percent of the adult population of Serbia had been vaccinated. According to her post, another five municipalities reported having more than 50 percent of vaccinated adults joining a group of 58 local communities.

Speaking on the pro-government TV Prva on Thursday, Dr Tatjana Adzic Vukicevic, CEO of the Batajnica COVID hospital in Belgrade, said that the number of patients was rising daily, warning that most of them had not been vaccinated.

The doctor said that the hospital admitted 13 patients on Wednesday compared to the two to five patients admitted daily over the past eight weeks. “The number of patients doubled in just eight days,” she said, adding that the hospital has 94 COVID patients, 10 of who are in intensive care.