(ANSA) - BELGRADE, MARCH 18 - A total of 9153 confirmed cases of coronavirus (+1568 day-on-day), 6012 in Germany only, and 27 deaths (+3) were registered in countries in Central- and Eastern Europe, Germany, Austria and Greece as of March 17, according to official data of national authorities collected by the World Health Organization (WHO). Most of cases of COVID-19 in the area were registered in Germany (6012, +1174 in the last 24 hours), Austria (1132, +159), Czech Republic (383, +85), Greece (331), , Slovenia (253, +34), Estonia (205, +126), Romania (158), Poland (150), Slovakia (72, +11), Serbia and Kosovo (70, +24), Bulgaria (67, +16), Croatia (56, +7), Albania (51, +9), Hungary (50, +11), Belarus (36), Latvia (36, +5), Moldova (29, +6), Bosnia-Herzegovina (19), North Macedonia (19, +6), Lithuania (17, +3), Ukraine (7, +4). The number of new cases may be higher as several countries, including Greece, Romania and Poland, did not forwards data to WHO in the last 24 hours.

Montenegro authorities reported the first cases of COVID-19 on March 17, 2020. (ANSA).