COVID-19 UPDATES: Federation entity confirms 41 new cases, one more fatality

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13:00 Health authorities in Bosnia's Federation entity have recorded 41 new cases of Coid-19, over the past 24 hours, when 465 samples were tested, Fena news agency reported.

According to the updated data from this Bosniak-Croat shared entity, 8,938 persons were tested so far and 722 were positive.

To date, 85 patients have successfully recovered from Covid-19, with more patients expected to recover in time to come.

A total of 73 patients are hospitalised in this entity, with eight connected to ventilators.

The cantons with the most cases are: Herzegovina-Neretva (220), Zenica-Doboj (96), Sarajevo (92), Tuzla (82), West Herzegovina (75) and Una-Sana (65).

Health officials from the south-Bosnian city of Mostar also reported that an elderly patient who was positive for Covid-19 had died on Saturday.

This is the fourth fatality from the south-Bosnian city of Citluk and 47th fatality in total.

According to the Civil Affairs Ministry's data collected by 12 am, Bosnia has a total of 1,268 confirmed cases of Covid-19, 338 people recovered and 47 have died as a result of the disease.

9:00 Bosnian health authorities recorded 27 new cases as of Saturday morning – 26 in Bosnia's Serb-dominated Republika Srpska (RS) region and one in the Bosniak-Croat shared Federation (FBiH)

So far, 46 patients died from he novel coronavirus and 320 have recovered.