Over the last 24 hours, 17 patients died from COVID-19-related complications and out of 15,769 tested, 3,866 people were infected with the coronavirus, Serbia's Health Ministry said on Thursday.

To date, COVID-19 claimed a total of 4,508 lives with a mortality rate of 0.95 percent.

On Thursday, 4,109 patients were hospitalised of whom 173 on ventilators.

Since the epidemic outbreak in March 2020, 3,002,480‬ people have been tested, and 474,807 samples have returned positive for the new virus.