Shoppers visit Serbia market as restrictions eased

Sellers wearing protective face masks and gloves put their products on stalls as the first customers trickled in to buy fresh spring offerings at an open-air green market in central Belgrade. Such markets are very popular in the Serbian capital, with many scattered throughout the city of 2 million.

Belgrade:Vendors selling vegetables, fruit and dairy products returned to Serbia's markets on Wednesday as open-air facilities reopened with the easing of certain lockdown measures brought in to stem the spread of the new coronavirus.

Sellers wearing protective face masks and gloves put their products on stalls as the first customers trickled in to buy fresh spring offerings at an open-air green market in central Belgrade.

Such markets are very popular in the Serbian capital, with many scattered throughout the city of 2 million.

One vendor says, there are not too many people yet, but this very good.

Elsewhere in the city, shops selling technical goods and book stores also reopened as part of the easing of lockdown restrictions.

The authorities have also shortened a daily curfew and have allowed people aged over 65 to go for a walk three times a week.

Serbia's elderly had been ordered indoors for more than a month, with daily and weekend curfews also in place - some of the toughest rules to tackle the outbreak in Europe.

Serbia so far has reported 6,890 infections with the new coronavirus and 130 deaths.

(AP)