A total of 63 COVID-19 patients passed away and out of 22,013 people tested, 10,602 were confirmed infected with the coronavirus in Serbia in the past 24 hours, the Health Ministry said on Sunday.

To date, COVID-19 has officially claimed 13,991 lives in the country.

The mortality rate is 0.79 percent.

Currently, 4,295 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, 15 of them on ventilators.

Since the coronavirus outbreak in Serbia in March 2020, 8,324,359 people have been tested and 1,768,343 infections have been confirmed in the country.