Sladjana Velkov, an anti-vax celebrity operating in Serbia and North Macedonia, recently declared that the situation is "not serious" and that the new virus is "just a common cold which, like the other common colds, affects only older people or people with compromised immunity".
Sladjana Velkov, ẹni tó gbajúmọ̀ gẹ́gẹ́ bí alátakò-ìbupá tó ń ṣiṣẹ́ ní Serbia àti Àríwá Macedonia, sọ láì pẹ́ yìí wí pé nǹkan kò "le tóyẹn" àti pé "ọ̀fìnkìn lásán ni, èyí tí kò yàtọ̀ sí ọ̀fìnkìn tí a ti mọ̀ tẹ́lẹ̀, tó máa ń ṣe àwọn àgbàlagbà tàbí àwọn tí ìlera ara wọn kò pé tó".