Serbia reports first case of new strain of coronavirus
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BELGRADE, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- Serbian authorities said on Sunday that the country has found the first case of the mutant coronavirus strain which was first detected in Britain.
The information was confirmed by President Aleksandar Vucic in a statement on TV Prva, a Serbian commercial television network, after he was informed about it by the Health Ministry.
The president said that the new strain of the virus was found in a traveler from London.
Serbia so far has registered 382,285 cases of the coronavirus, while 3,868 people died of COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus.
The country started vaccinating high-risk groups on Dec. 24, while on Tuesday it started with mass vaccination using the vaccine of the Chinese Sinopharm. Over 170,000 people have received the vaccine. Enditem
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