Bosnian health authorities reported 39 new Covid-19 cases on Thursday, adding that there was also a fatality caused by the new coronavirus.

Over the past 24 hours, Bosnia's Serb-dominated Republika Srpska (RS) entity reported 33 new cases of the disease after testing 697 new samples.

The entity Health ministry said that the gender structure of the patients consists of 17 male and 16 female patients.

The Ministry added that so far, this entity has seen 1,201 confirmed cases of Covid-19, of which 511 have recovered and 81 died.
When it comes to the Bosniak-Croat shared Federation (FBiH) entity, Health Ministry's Crisis Staff said 650 people were tested over the past 24 hours and that six tests came back positive.

So far, this entity confirmed the disease in 997 cases, 745 of which have recovered.

Currently, 216 people are suffering from Covid-19, and the entity saw 37 fatalities caused by the new coronavirus.

The fatality that occurred over the past 24 hours happened in the central-Bosnian town called Teslic, located in the RS entity. The patient was a 69-year-old woman who suffered from pre-existing conditions.

According to Bosnia's Civil Affairs Ministry, the total number of confirmed cases in the country now stands at 2,218, of which 1,272 people recovered and 122 had died.