Bosnia confirms 160 new coronavirus infections

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Bosnia has recorded another 160 infections with the novel coronavirus, 77 in the Federation (FBiH) and 83 in Republika Srpska (RS), the healthcare authorities in both semi-autonomous regions confirmed on Tuesday in their daily updates. Ten more fatalities caused by the coronavirus were reported in the country, bringing the death toll to 209.

Both regions have continued the mass testing with 1,290 lab tests performed in the last 24 hours – 962 in the FBiH and 328 in RS.

The FBiH has so far performed 62,184 lab tests and confirmed 2,891 infections. To this day, 1,264 patients have recovered and 68 died in this part of Bosnia.

The total of 39,296 lab tests has been performed in RS with 2,692 positive outcomes. So far 1,403 patients have recovered and 134 died.

Brcko District, a separate administrative unit in the north, has reported 38 Covid-19 patients to date of which 20 have recovered and five died.

According to the Civil Affairs Ministry's official statistics, the country's coronavirus total stands at 5,621 and 2,693 patients have recovered to this date.