March 26 (SeeNews) - Serbia has confirmed two more deaths from the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on its territory, bringing the death toll to six, while the total number of infected people rose to 384 as of March 25, the health ministry said on Thursday.
A patient who passed away was born in 1940 and was put on mechanical ventilation breathing in the past few days;he suffered from cardiomyopathy, had hypertension, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and diabetes mellitus, the health ministry said in a statement.
"The other patient is a female born in 1958, who was hospitalised at the Clinical Center Nis. She was on ventilator and under the constant care of medical teams, who had done everything to save her, but there was still a lethal outcome. She had chronical arterial hypertension and diabetes, as well as rheumatoid arthritis," the ministry said.
On Wednesday evening, the health ministry said that 81 new COVID-19 cases were confirmed during the day, bringing the total count to 384, as the country launched mass testing for the disease among the population upon recommendation of Chinese epidemiologists.
Health minister Zlatibor Loncar announced the first case of COVID-19 in the country on March 6.