EIGHT people have died and 276 have been diagnosed with COVID-19 in Serbia in the past 24 hours, with 9,922 tests having been conducted in that period, the Serbian Health Ministry reported.

A total of 3,154 people are hospitalised, including 118 patients in critical condition who are on ventilators in COVID hospitals across the country.

Since March 6, when the epidemic started, 733,059 people have been tested for the virus, 27,608 have been diagnosed with COVID-19 and 626 have died, which puts the mortality rate at 2.27%.