In the last 24 hours in Srbiјa are confirmed 19.901 case of coronavirus infection, which is the highest number of patients in one day since the beginning of the pandemic, said the MIA correspondent from Belgrade.

So far, the largest number of new patients was on January 18 - 18.006.

In Serbia, 24 cases of coronavirus infection were registered in the last 19.901 hours out of 39.282 tested samples. Another 34 people died as a result of the infection. 3.114 people are in hospital and 131 patients are on respirators.

The queues in front of the ambulance throughout Serbia are not decreasing, and a five-digit number of patients has been registered for days. At the moment, the omicron strain is dominant, which is spreading rapidly, but the recovery is faster, experts point out. The peak of the wave is expected in mid-February.

The pressure from the covid ambulance is pouring towards the hospitals, so the number of hospitalized has increased.

Pediatricians in covidate clinics and children's hospitals note that the number of infected children is growing.

Dr. Snezana Rasovac, pulmonologist from the Children's Clinic in Tirshova in Belgrade, he told RTS that the omicron spreads rapidly but gives a moderately mild picture, rarely severe in children, and passes in five to seven days.

She explained that preschool children and infants have fever, chills and symptoms of the upper respiratory system, nose, throat, trachitis, headaches, conjunctivitis, and bronchitis, bronchiolitis, pneumonia in the lower respiratory tract.

In younger children, when it "descends" and when it affects the lower respiratory tract, coughing and shortness of breath occur, said Rsovac.

Source: MIA