Bosnia sees another 128 Covid-19 cases, one fatality

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Bosnian health authorities reported another 128 new Covid-19 cases, with the Bosniak-Croat shared Federation (FBiH) entity reporting 97, while the Serb-dominated Republika Srpska (RS) reported 33 new cases.

After testing 936 samples over the past 24 hours, the FBiH reported 97 positive cases, most of which came from Tuzla and Sarajevo cantons.

This semi-autonomous entity currently has 1,003 active patients and health authorities recorded one fatality as well, over the past 24 hours.

The Covid-19 crisis staff in this entity said the situation is getting more complicated and is it very important that citizens act according to their recommendations.

When it comes to the RS entity, the authorities there said they recorded 31 new cases of the disease after testing 211 samples. The authorities there say 2,232 cases were confirmed positive so far, and that 1,323 people have recovered.

According to the state Civil Affairs Ministry, Bosnia has so far confirmed 4,325 cases of Covid-19, of which 2,366 recovered and 186 have died.