A decision has been made: Students will have a weeklong extension of the recess due to flu

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Proposal of the Minister of Health Zlatibor Loncar at today's session of the Government of Serbia to extend the winter holidays for elementary and high school students for another week has been adopted. 

29 people died from flu in Serbia so far: More than 104.000 people sick, most of them are children up to 4 years of age

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The holiday will last for one more week.

The Minister's decision came at the suggestion of an expert, an epidemiologist, who estimates that in the coming period there will be even more people who will be sick with flu, and the patients have been mostly children. 

- A total of 104,687 people with flu-like illnesses and 29 fatal cases have been reported with the sixth weekly report, and it was confirmed in the laboratory - announced by "Batut" institute.

Loncar explained that the epidemiological situation is in line with the trend of the disease for this time of the year, that in the previous years, there were cases where up to 250 to 300 people died from flu.

The latest death was recorded in Pancevo, where a 50-year-old woman died from the outbreak of influenza in the General Hospital, so the black balance from the beginning of the season increased to 23 deaths.

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(Telegraf.co.uk)