Another 109 Covid-19 cases in Bosnia and one fatality

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Bosnian health officials said Tuesday they uncovered 109 new coronavirus cases over the past 24 hours, 40 in the Serb-dominated Republika Srpska (RS) entity and 69 in the Bosniak-Croat shared Federation (FBiH) entity, adding that there was also one fatality as a result of the infection in the RS.

After testing 327 samples for the presence of SARS-COV-2, the RS Public Health Institute said 40 samples came back positive for the disease.

The fatality which the Institute reposted was that of a middle-aged man with multiple chronic diseases.

The FBiH entity's Covid-19 Crisis Staff reported 69 new cases after testing 775 samples. This entity reported zero fatalities over the past 24 hours.

According to the state Civil Affairs Ministry, Bosnia has so far confirmed 4,453 Covid-19 cases, of which 2,402 recovered, and 186 had died.