Talha Ozturk
06 March 2020•Update: 06 March 2020
BELGRADE, Serbia
Serbia on Friday confirmed the first coronavirus case in the Balkan country.
"This is a 43-year old man from Subotica city who has been in Budapest recently," said Health Minister Zlatibor Loncar during an extraordinary press conference.
Earlier, most countries in the region recorded cases of coronavirus and experts said that the virus was highly likely to occur in Serbia.
On Thursday, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Slovenia confirmed their first cases of the new coronavirus in the countries.
Meanwhile, Croatia confirmed that 10 people tested positive on the virus.
COVID-19 emerged in China’s central Wuhan city last December and has now spread to over 80 countries.
The global death toll is over 3,200, with more than 95,000 confirmed cases, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Notably, some 52,000 patients who contracted the virus recovered.
The WHO, which declared the outbreak an international health emergency, recently updated the global risk level to very high.
