263 people newly infected with coronavirus in Serbia, a total of 8.042

Two women and three men have died, epidemiologist Predrag Kon confirmed.
Out of 4.365 COVID-19 tests that were performed in the last 24 hours, 263 were positive.
Serbia now has the total of 8.042 confirmed coronavirus cases, while 1.182 patients have recovered so far.
The total of 3.044 patients have been hospitalised and 85 were on respirators.
Up till now, the number of tested patients in Serbia stands at 64.303.
In Serbia, 545 healthcare workers were infected with COVID-19.
Coronavirus was confirmed in 561 tenants and 149 employees in social care and nursing homes.
Kon said 88 children were infected with COVID-19, adding that the capacities for their hospital treatment are full.
"Half of those children are from Belgrade, half are from other parts of Serbia," Kon said, noting that the children have a milder clinical picture.

"Protective masks required in public transportation, indoors and shops" Foto: TANJUG/ VLADA REPUBLIKE SRBIJE/ SLOBODAN MILJEVIC

Kon said the coronavirus had no intention of leaving us, and what we had at our disposal are measures of social distancing.
"The isolation measures are beginning to deplete, and now we have to make sure, with distancing measures at various levels, that the virus is transmitted as little as possible. What will be its transmission during the summer, we will see," Kon concluded.
According to him, the measures will be evaluated and communicated as they are most rational at that moment.
"The risk will not go away, it can only be reduced to the smallest extent," he said.
"Controversial information is coming from the world, which means that all this will take a very long time. We will only know for ourselves when we do the research," Kon...