In the past 24 hours, 93 new cases of coronavirus infection have been confirmed in Sarajevo Canton. These are the results of testing 436 people, Avaz news portal reports.
As stated by the Institute of Public Health of the Sarajevo Canton, the mentioned numbers of tested persons and newly infected include the analyzed tests for July 9 and 10 until ten o’clock in the morning.
Most of the newly infected are family clusters who have already been in home isolation. One person passed away yesterday. In Sarajevo Canton, 678 people are currently positive for coronavirus, 40 of whom are in hospital in the Isolation of the Clinical Center of the University of Sarajevo.
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, 310 new cases of coronavirus infection have been registered, according to data from the entity public health institutes.
This is the highest number of confirmed cases in one day in BiH since the beginning of the pandemic, Vijesti.ba news portal reports.
In the Federation of BiH entity, 1,199 samples were tested, and positive were 196 cases, according to the data of the Federal Institute of Public Health, in the past 24 hours. So far, 65,694 samples have been tested in the Federation of BiH, and the coronavirus has been confirmed in 3,320 people.
As of today, 1,425 patients in the Federation of BiH have recovered, 98 patients have recovered in the past 24 hours.
There are currently 1,822 coronavirus cases active, and 73 deaths have been reported so far. In the last 24 hours, one death was reported, a male person from Sarajevo (1933).
A total of 114 new cases of coronavirus have been registered in Republika Srpska, said the acting director of the RS Institute of Public Health, Branislav Zeljko, epidemiologistogist at the Jelena Đaković Dević Institute stated that 582 samples were tested, and that one death was reported.