Over the last 24 hours, 39 patients died from COVID-19-related complications and out of 16,910 tested people, 4,826 were infected with the coronavirus, Serbia's Health Ministry said on Friday.

To date, COVID-19 claimed a total of 5,384 lives with a mortality rate of 0.88 percent.

On Friday, 7,641 patients were hospitalised, of whom 299 on ventilators.

Since the epidemic outbreak in March 2020, 3,458,046 people have been tested, and 610,232 samples have returned positive for the new virus.