AS OF SATURDAY, August 15, Croatian, Bulgarian, Romanian and North Macedonian citizens will be required to have a negative PCR test no older than 48 hours to enter Serbia, the Serbian government's COVID-19 response team decided on Friday.

The team also decided that restrictions that had previously applied to Montenegrin citizens, no longer apply, adding that all the measures introduced on August 15 will remain in force until the epidemiological situation changes.

Darija Kisic Tepavcevic, a member of the COVID-19 response team, said that "at the moment" the latest measures do not apply to Serbian nationals arriving from those countries.

She told the national RTS broadcaster that the decision was made based on an estimate of the current epidemiological situation and the upward trend of infections over the past few days.

She underlined that the situation in Serbia had been changing for the better lately and that hospitals were gradually abandoning the Covid-19 regime.

We want a stable epidemiological situation because the new school year is about to start as is flu season so we want to reduce the number of potential carriers of the disease entering our country, Kisic Tepavcevic told RTS.