page_title: COVID-19 pandemic in Serbia
hierarchical_section_title: COVID-19 pandemic in Serbia
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of the outbreak in Serbia
context_page_description: The COVID-19 pandemic in Serbia is a current outbreak of the disease COVID-19 in Serbia caused by the virus SARS-CoV-2. Its first case in Serbia was reported on 6 March 2020, and confirmed by Minister of Health Zlatibor Lončar, the case was a 43-year-old man from Bačka Topola who had travelled to Budapest.
  As of 22 July 2020, a total of 580,271 individuals had been tested, of which there had been 22,031 confirmed cases, 499 deaths, and 4619 hospitalised cases.
  In late June 2020, the Balkan Insight published a report based on the allegedly leaked data from the internal Government COVID-19 information system. This report stated that in reality, Serbia had recorded 632 deaths due to COVID-19 in the period from 19 March to 1 June 2020, which corresponds to 388 additional deaths caused by the virus that were not publicly reported. Additionally, according to the leaked data, the number of people who became infected in Serbia from June 17 to June 20 was at least 300 per day, while public reports never accounted for more than 96 cases per day in the same period.
context_section_description: The COVID-19 pandemic in Serbia is a current outbreak of the disease COVID-19 in Serbia caused by the virus SARS-CoV-2. Its first case in Serbia was reported on 6 March 2020, and confirmed by Minister of Health Zlatibor Lončar, the case was a 43-year-old man from Bačka Topola who had travelled to Budapest.
  As of 22 July 2020, a total of 580,271 individuals had been tested, of which there had been 22,031 confirmed cases, 499 deaths, and 4619 hospitalised cases.
  In late June 2020, the Balkan Insight published a report based on the allegedly leaked data from the internal Government COVID-19 information system. This report stated that in reality, Serbia had recorded 632 deaths due to COVID-19 in the period from 19 March to 1 June 2020, which corresponds to 388 additional deaths caused by the virus that were not publicly reported. Additionally, according to the leaked data, the number of people who became infected in Serbia from June 17 to June 20 was at least 300 per day, while public reports never accounted for more than 96 cases per day in the same period. Recovery figures were also disputed, with the Public Health Institute of Montenegro formally requesting an explanation from Serbian authorities in early June following a reported recovery of 4,000 patients in one day. Earlier, the index case was also disputed after the Public Health Institute publicly revealed that the first case was registered a week before the officially reported index case.
caption: Number of confirmed cases by municipality
  (as of 16 May 2020):   0 confirmed  1–35 confirmed  39–138 confirmed  151–1014 confirmed  1882 confirmed
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