{"id":210067,"date":"2020-07-09T07:36:33","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T07:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=210067"},"modified":"2020-07-11T06:33:17","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T06:33:17","slug":"serbian-president-backtracks-on-covid-19-curfew-after-protests-enter-second-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=210067","title":{"rendered":"Serbian president backtracks on COVID-19 curfew after protests enter second day"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Emma Beswick \u2013 AP July 9, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Anti-lockdown-protesters-storm-Serbian-parliament.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-210069\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Anti-lockdown-protesters-storm-Serbian-parliament-768x512.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Anti-lockdown-protesters-storm-Serbian-parliament-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Anti-lockdown-protesters-storm-Serbian-parliament-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Anti-lockdown-protesters-storm-Serbian-parliament.jpg 780w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Serbian President Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107 backtracked on a plan to enforce a second lockdown amid increasing coronavirus cases after protesters filled the streets of Belgrade.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Vu\u010di\u0107 had announced on Tuesday that new lockdown measures would be reintroduced later in the week, prompting demonstrators to gather in front of the parliament with some chanting &#8220;Resignation! Resignation!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">??<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Belgrade?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Belgrade<\/a>: The crowd outside of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Serbia?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Serbia<\/a>|n parliament right now protesting <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COVID19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#COVID19<\/a> mandates. Earlier hundreds had stormed inside the building before they were driven back by police. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8IbxNrT1l3\">pic.twitter.com\/8IbxNrT1l3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The WannabeWonk (@PotempkinBrain) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PotempkinBrain\/status\/1280611293880299523?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 7, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Protests began on Tuesday and continued the following day with several people injured outside parliament as clashes erupted between groups of protesters and police, who fired rounds of tear gas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-min-tv-running=\"true\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">But Vu\u010di\u0107 said on Wednesday that without a state of emergency, he wouldn&#8217;t be able to enforce a curfew, in an apparent backtrack on his plan to impose a curfew from Friday to Monday to curb the spread of the virus<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">He said the country&#8217;s crisis team, prime minister and health minister would &#8220;probably decide tomorrow to introduce harsher measures, but without introducing a curfew.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The country&#8217;s chief epidemiologist, Predrag Kon, told Serbia&#8217;s cable news channel N1 earlier in the day that the protests showed how people felt about the lockdown.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Protesters reacted by throwing projectiles including flares, stones, bottles and eggs at authorities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Vu\u010di\u0107&#8217;s critics have said that he lifted the state of emergency in order to hold an election, which he has denied.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Vu\u010di\u0107 called the situation relating to the virus in the Serbian capital &#8220;alarming&#8221; and &#8220;critical&#8221; as the city&#8217;s hospitals neared their capacity limits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">At least 357 new COVID-19 cases were confirmed in 24 hours in Serbia on Tuesday and 11 people had died, according to the country\u2019s Health Ministry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Serbia went from having one of the strictest lockdowns in Europe to near-complete reopening at the beginning of May.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The country&#8217;s total confirmed cases on Tuesday stood at 17,076 with 341 virus-related deaths.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2020\/07\/08\/coronavirus-protesters-attempt-to-storm-parliament-in-serbia-as-lockdown-measures-are-rein\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-lockdown protesters storm Serbian parliament<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=210067"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210070,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210067\/revisions\/210070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}