Serbian Pop Singer Popular in Balkans Dies of Coronavirus

Serbian Pop Singer Popular in Balkans Dies of Coronavirus
An intern prepares drugs for COVID-19 patients in the internal medicine department of the Emile Muller hospital in Mulhouse on Feb. 16, 2021. Sebastien Bozon/ AFP via Getty Images
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BELGRADE, Serbia—Djordje Balasevic, a Serbian singer who remained widely popular throughout former Yugoslavia after the wars of the 1990s, has died after contracting the new coronavirus, state television reported Friday. He was 66.

Balasevic was admitted to a hospital in the northern Serbian city of Novi Sad three days ago suffering from pneumonia that appeared to be a complication of COVID-19. State broadcaster RTS said he died at the hospital on Friday.