7 new deaths from COVID-19: "Lifting emergency does not mean the end of outbreak"
Five men and two women died.
Currently, there are 3.765 patients in hospitals and 122 on the respirator. There are 20.156 people in isolation and 534 people cured.
They said that 3.094 people had been tested over the previous 24 hours bringing the total number of people tested to 32.566, while 372 people have been tested positive for the last 24 hours.
The mortality rate now stands at 1.93 percent.
There are also 616 health workers out of 6.567 tested for coronavirus. We are awaiting the result for 954 more, the conference said.
"I think we do pretty well. As a health care provider, I feel safest when I have all the equipment I need. I'm not saying that healthcare workers have not contracted COVID-19 in the workplace, some of them certainly are," said Ivana Milosevic, Deputy Director of the Clinic for Infectious and Tropical Diseases.
As regards the work responsibilities of blind and partially sighted persons, the profession had no answer.
"It's not a question for us. They are special needs people and it's a question of whether they can work at all. It can be discussed and a solution can be reached," Kon said.
Experts have denied allegations that the order to use the visors was only sent on April 15.
"This is the first time I've heard of that order. Employees have the right to use either glasses or a visor," Milosevic said and Kon agreed.
They added that the Institute for Orthopedics Banjica has already started receiving patients and that it still has vacant capacities to receive new ones, in response to a question about what will happen when the capacities at COVID hospitals in Belgrade are filled.
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