Over the last 24 hours, 29 patients died from COVID-19-related complications and out of 17,208 tested, 5,305 people were infected with the coronavirus, Serbia's Health Ministry said on Friday.

To date, COVID-19 claimed a total of 4,869 lives with a mortality rate of 0.90 percent.

On Friday, 5,277 patients were hospitalised, 228 of whom on ventilators.

Since the epidemic outbreak in March 2020, 3,235,608 people have been tested, and 542,209 samples have returned positive for the new virus.