Bosnia's health authorities recorded another spike in cases of Covid-19 for the second time in a row, with 80 new cases, accompanied by four more deaths.

Over the past 24 hours, Bosnia's Serb-majority part Republika Srpska (RS) recorded 53 new cases after testing 627 fresh samples – 20 men and 33 women.

Of this number, four women and five men are said to be younger patients.

According to the Bosniak-Croat shared Federation (FBiH) entity's Crisis Staff, 1,030 samples have been tested in the past 24 hours for Covid-19, of which 27 came back positive.

So far, 17,295 persons have been tested in this entity and 918 came back positive, the Crisis Staff confirmed.

According to Goran Cerkez from the Crisis Staff, the fact that the normalization begins this Sunday does not mean that measures and recommendations are no longer needed or applicable.

“It's important that we remain committed to the measures which the Crisis Staff proposed. I think that most citizens have respected all the measures so far and we don't any major problems in the coming period, but there are always some citizens that to hear these things from time to time. Therefore, I urge everyone to remain cautious and I wish you a happy upcoming holiday (May Day),” Cerkez noted.

Banja Luka University Hospital reported four fatalities over the past 24 hours – two women and two men.

The women were 72 and 63 years old, while the men were 65 and 48. All were patients at the hospital undergoing treatment for Covid-19.

According to the state Civil Affairs Ministry, there are now 1,757 confirmed cases in the country, of which 727 have recovered and 69 died.