details of ongoing viral outbreak in Bosnia and Herzegovina From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached Bosnia and Herzegovina on 5 March 2020 in Banja Luka, who had been in Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic. Later the same day, a second case who was the son of the first case.[1]
COVID-19 pandemic in Bosnia and Herzegovina | |
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Disease | COVID-19 |
Virus strain | SARS-CoV-2 |
Location | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
First outbreak | |
Index case | Banja Luka |
Arrival date | 5 March 2020 (4 years, 6 months and 1 week ago) |
Confirmed cases | 20,892 |
Suspected cases‡ | undefined |
Recovered | 13,354 |
Deaths | 620 |
Government website | |
‡Suspected cases have not been confirmed by laboratory tests as being due to this strain, although some other strains may have been ruled out. |
On 21 March 2020, the first death in the country from COVID-19 was announced in a hospital in Bihać. The patient was an elderly woman who had been hospitalized two days before.
As of 13 May 2020, in Bosnia and Herzegovina there were 2182 confirmed coronavirus cases, of which 1168 were in Republika Srpska,[2][3] 994 in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina,[4][5] and 20 in Brčko District.[6]
On 17 March 2020, the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina declared a state of emergency in all of Bosnia and Herzegovina.[7]
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