22:31 The tenth person to pass away due to COVID-19 in Bosnia and Herzegovina was a female and the first to contract the virus in the southern town of Siroki Brijeg.
The patient was brought to the Mostar University Clinical Hospital in critical condition and was hooked up on a respirator for the past several days.
A total of 358 people have tested positive for COVID-19 in Bosnia by now and 17 have been cured.
17:40 Three people tested positive for COVID-19 in the central Bosnian town of Kakanj, bringing the total number of coronavirus patients in the country to 358.
16:20 Authorities in the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton confirmed that another person tested positive to COVID-19 in the southern town of Citluk.
There are more than 350 confirmed coronavirus cases in the country and the number keeps increasing by the hour.
There were two coronavirus-related deaths since Monday morning in Bosnia.
Another person who passed away due to heart failure also tested positive for the virus.
11:55 Two more patients who had previously tested positive for the novel coronavirus passed away, healthcare authorities in Bosnia's Federation entity confirmed on Monday, which brings the country's death toll to eight.
One of the fatalities was recorded in Mostar, which was the first confirmed COVID-19 case in that southern town and was hospitalised due to severe respiratory health issues.
The other death was recorded in central Bosnia. A 56-year-old man who was initially hospitalised in the town Gornji Vakuf-Uskoplje died on the way to the central hospital in Travnik, Sead Karakas, Head of the Public Healthcare Institute in the Central Bosnia Canton (SBK) told media on Monday.
“We had a feeling we had to test him, which we did, and the result was positive,” said Karakas, stressing it was important to find the patient zero and potential contacts.
Meanwhile, Bosnia's Federation entity recorded new confirmed cases, two in the northwestern Una-Sana Canton and seven more in the central Zenica-Doboj Canton.
10:24 Eleven more coronavirus infections have been confirmed in Tuzla Canton, cantonal health authorities told N1, bringing the total number of the COVID-19 cases to 353.
Speaking to N1, general manager of the Tuzla Clinical Centre, Vahid Jusufovic, said the number has grown rapidly over the past days from zero patients only three days ago.
All patients are stable and ten have been hospitalised, he said.
Of the total of 201 patients that have been confirmed Monday morning in Bosnia's Republika Srpska entity, 11 have successfully recovered, health minister Alen Seranic confirmed.
08:05 The authorities of Bosnia's Federation (FBiH) entity launched systematic disinfection of all settlements on its territory, as one in the series of measures to combat the coronavirus and prevent its dramatic spread, starting with the southern town Konjic, the most affected by the virus.
So far, Konjic has 25 registered patients, followed by Tuzla (17) and Sarajevo (15). The whole entity, which makes a little over half of the country counts 139 virus infections.
After the country moved to the daylight saving time on Sunday, the authorities decided to extend the curfew hours and citizens are free to go out now between 5 am to 8 pm. However, wearing face masks and gloves is now mandatory in public.
The other half of the country, Republika Srpska (RS) region, has 200 COVID-19 patients with the city of Banja Luka as a hotspot counting 133 patients.
Six persons passed away in the country as a consequence of the coronavirus infection, and eight recovered.
On Sunday, one entire local community in the northwestern Bosnia was placed in quarantine, after a 61-year-old woman tested positive for the coronavirus.
