Bosnia and Herzegovina reported another 279 coronavirus infections and 13 fatalities among Covid-19 patients, the healthcare authorities confirmed on Friday.

The new results came from 2,432 lab tests performed among those who reported infection symptoms.

The country has to this date reported the total of 125,402 Covid-19 patients, of which 104,135 have recovered.

Only in the last 24 hours, the authorities reported more than 1,500 recoveries.

Bosnia's coronavirus death toll stands at 4,881.

Although Bosnia is still awaiting the first shipment of the coronavirus vaccine through COVAX mechanism to start the mass inoculation of its population, one of its two regions, Republika Srpska (RS), has vaccinated its first residents on Friday using the Russian Sputnik V vaccine it purchased earlier this year.