Another 22 coronavirus cases reported in Bosnia, 11 of them in Tesanj

Tanjug / Zoran Žestić

A total of 22 new coronavirus cases were reported across Bosnia and Herzegovina since Thursday but all the new cases in half of the country, the Federation (FBiH) region, come from the northern town of Tesanj.

Of the 258 samples tested at the Sarajevo University Clinical Center in the past 24 hours, 11 came back positive – all of them from Tesanj. Another 33 residents of the town tested positive for the virus throughout the past two days.

Health authorities in Bosnia’s other semi-autonomous region, Republika Srpska (RS), also reported 11 new coronavirus cases after testing 662 people since Thursday.

The total number of people who caught the virus across Bosnia and Herzegovina so far is 2,485. Of those, 153 people died due to COVID-19, while 1,803 recovered.