The official data showed on Thursday that among 10,764 people tested 161 were confirmed infected with the coronavirus in the last 24 hours, while five patients died from COVID-19.

The Health Ministry said the death toll stood at 689 and that a mortality ratio was 2.28 percent.

It added that 1,245 patients were hospitalised on Thursday, 52 of them on ventilators.

Since the outbreak of the epidemic in Serbia on March 6, a total of 842,441 people were tested, and coronavirus infection was confirmed in 30,209 cases.