The official data showed on Tuesday that out of 7,509 people tested 76 were confirmed infected with the coronavirus in the last 24 hours, while two patients died from COVID-19-related complications.

The Health Ministry said the death toll stood at 715 and that a mortality ratio was 2.27 percent.

It added that a total of 579 patients were hospitalised on Tuesday, 48 of them on ventilators.

Since the outbreak of the epidemic in Serbia on March 6, a total of 938,546 people were tested, and coronavirus infection was confirmed in 31,482 cases.