 Hi, I'm Vladimir. I'm reporting from Belgrade, Serbia. Today is Monday, 23rd of March. In Serbia, the government introduced a state of emergency on 15th of March. Schools, nurseries and universities have been shut down. The army was deployed to the streets, hospitals and borders, which are also now shut down. Curfew was introduced and public transportation and intercity connections are closed. People who are older than 65 are forbidden to leave their homes, while others can go out from 5 a.m. until 5 p.m. These measures were introduced after the situation rapidly got worse. Initially officials were actually making fun of the epidemics. They were even recommending that women for whom they claimed are resilient to the virus should go to Milan for shopping since the sales period is approaching. This was actually stated during the official government press conference a couple of weeks ago. During last weeks, there was a huge deficit in masks, in gloves, disinfectants and also tests. China sent two planes full of these goods and they also deployed a group of medical workers to Serbia. We are lacking in medical personnel like everywhere in Europe. Our healthcare system was hit by austerity measures. This led to a significant outflow of medical workers to West Europe, especially to Germany. Government is now initiating the campaign to bring them back, but it is mostly based on moral patriotic stance and it is a big question whether they will manage to inspire anyone to come back and work for wages that range from 350 euros for nurses up to 1000 euros for medical specialists. At the same time, government lashed out at a huge number of people who actually came back to Serbia from abroad. Some data shows that more than 300,000 people came back and some are still stuck on the airport ports all around the world. President Aleksandr Wucic and his associates claimed that these people came back only because they could get medical treatment for free here in Serbia, which of course is not true because medical treatment is not free in Serbia. They also, so the government also blamed Returnees that they were the ones who brought coronavirus to Serbia. This kind of negligent behavior could put in a dangerous position these people and most of whom left Serbia for work or studying and to whom the temporary residence permissions were canceled in the wake of Corona outbreak. It should be noted that despite the state of emergency, many workers have to go to work every day. Some of them are not being provided with necessary protective equipment. For example, workers of Yura factory, one of the biggest foreign direct investments in Serbia had to protest in order to get masks and gloves. Also, single mothers who work in Geox shoe factory are left with the choice either to stay at home to take care of their children who are now, who cannot go to nurseries and schools anymore or to lose their jobs. Also, global delivery workers started to organize in order to push for the raise of the salaries. So currently we can see a lot of social demands that are starting to boil and what will be the outcome of it still remains open. I have to mention in the end that yesterday, as usually, residents of Belgrade gave massive applause at date. But this time, beside medical workers, the applause was also dedicated to the city of Zagreb, which was hit by strong earthquake. In that way, Belgrade joined Sarajevo, Banyaluq and many other cities who also expressed support to people of Zagreb. So solidarity is our main strength, obviously in this period of crisis and hopefully it is here to stay.