A total of 34 COVID-19 patients have passed away and 2,583 tested positive for the coronavirus in Serbia among the 12,099 tested in the past 24 hours, Serbia’s Health Ministry said on Saturday.

Serbia’s COVID-19 death toll is now 5954, with a mortality rate of 0.9 percent.

A total of 7,011 people are hospitalised, 288 of them on ventilators.

Since the outbreak of the pandemic, 3,673,249 people have been tested for the virus in Serbia and 660,299 of the results came back positive.