20:00 Sarajevo University Hospital tested 54 samples for Covid-19 from the Una-Sana Canton, in the north-west of the country, cantonal Health Minister Nermina Cemalovic said, adding that seven returned positive.
Four cases are from Cazin and three from Bihac, she said.
The total number of confirmed cases in the country is now close to 600 and the number of fatalities caused by the virus is 18.
16:20 Five new cases were confirmed in Republika Srpska's (RS) East Sarajevo and six in Federation's (FBiH) Herzegovina-Neretva Canton, N1 learned on Friday afternoon.
15:40 Bosnia's Republika Srpska (RS) entity will ban all movement outside the place of residence from Saturday at 12 pm until Sunday at 6 pm, RS Justice Minister Anton Kasipovic said Friday.
“The measure was introduced to prevent the spread of Covid-19. Movement is allowed only to persons who work, carrying a permit. The RS police will be in charge of implementing this measure,” Kasipovic said.
14:37 Seven more people tested positive for the coronavirus in the Central Bosnian Canton, while nine new cases were reported in the Tuzla Canton, health authorities said.
Meanwhile, Bosnia’s Defence Minister, Sifet Podzic, said that two members of Bosnia’s Armed Forced may have caught the virus.
“This information is still being checked. We are talking about two members whose family members caught the virus. Most importantly, they were not part of any units,” he said.
“As for the rest of the members of the Armed Forces, they are alive and healthy and are implementing their tasks,” he said.
Podzic said that the families of 14 members of the army have coronavirus cases among them and that he hopes “we will manage to block that from spreading to the barracks.”
12:54 According to the latest information available, there are 567 confirmed coronavirus cases in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the death toll stands at 18.
A total of 274 people tested positive for the virus in Bosnia’s Serb-majority Republika Srpska (RS) and 280 in the Federation (FBiH).
12:32 One of the doctors at the Republika Srpska University Clinical Centre who is being treated for COVID-19 has been hooked up on a respirator and his condition is critical, said the director of the hospital, Vlado Djajic.
09:36 Another person passed away in Bosnia due to the coronavirus on Thursday, bringing the death toll caused by the virus in the country to 17.
09:11 Of the 99 samples tested at the Sarajevo University Clinical Centre (KCUS) throughout last night, three were positive for the coronavirus and one of them is an employee of the hospital, KCUS head, Dr. Sebija Izetbegovic, confirmed to Faktor.
The other two samples that were positive belong to citizens of Sarajevo and Tesanj.
09:00 Seven more people have tested positive for the coronavirus in Bosnia's Serb majority region in the past 24 hours, Republika Srpska (RS) Health Minister Alen Seranic said in his morning press conference on Friday.
The latest patients are three women and four men. Two of them are from Bijeljina and the others are from Banja Luka, Mrkonjic Grad, Teslic, Kotor Varos and East Ilidza.
Of those who tested positive for the virus in Republika Srpska in total, eight are younger than 15 and 36 are older than 65, Seranic said.
He also said that 13 health workers in total in RS tested positive.
Republika Srpska has a total of 274 COVID-19 cases at the moment while 265 cases were confirmed in the other semi-autonomous entity, the Federation (FBiH).
A total of 16 people have passed away due to the virus in Bosnia.
A series of measures to contain the virus, including curfews, were introduced across the country in March.
