The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, announced that starting tomorrow night clubs and rafts in Belgrade will be closed for the next 14 days from 23.00:06.00 p.m. to XNUMX:XNUMX a.m.
From Monday, fines of 5.000 to 6.000 dinars (42-51 euros) will be charged to citizens who do not wear masks in public transport and shopping centers.
Vučić said after the meeting of the government's Crisis Staff for the suppression of the epidemic that public gatherings in a closed space in Belgrade will be limited to 100 people, with mandatory wearing of masks and respect for physical distance, and outside the limit is 500 people.
"The government will adopt these measures, but we will unequivocally close nightclubs and rafts from 23 p.m. to 6 a.m. At that time, we had the largest number of infected people for reasons unknown to me. The same applies to cafes except for those with a garden," said Vučić.
He added that student dormitories in Belgrade will be closed.
"If these measures are not sufficient in the next three or four days, we will take further measures. If I were the only one wondering, I would close Belgrade, introduce a seven-day curfew, that is the fastest solution," said Vučić.
He said that he does not rule out the possibility of closing the entrance and exit from Belgrade if the new measures do not produce results.
"Belgrade is currently the biggest epidemiological problem in Serbia because with 22,7 percent of the country's total population, it has 82,5 percent of the total number of infected people. Everything else is incomparable, all other numbers are under control and that is more or less expected, usual. The problem is the situation in Belgrade, it is clear that Belgrade is the focal point," said the President of Serbia.
Regarding the gathering of a large number of citizens at football matches, Vučić said that there were "not such big problems" at the stadiums and added that outdoor gatherings "are not even close" to the risk of indoor gatherings.
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