Over the last 24 hours, 30 patients died from COVID-19-related complications and out of 18,017 tested, 5,346 people were infected with the coronavirus, Serbia's Health Ministry said on Thursday.

To date, COVID-19 claimed a total of 4,840 lives with a mortality rate of 0.90 percent.

On Wednesday, 5,099 patients were hospitalised, 222 of whom on ventilators.

Since the epidemic outbreak in March 2020, 3.218.400 people have been tested, and 536.904 samples have returned positive for the new virus.