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SARAJEVO, April 23 (FENA) - Member of the Crisis Staff of the FBiH Ministry of Health and Assistant Minister for Public Health Goran Čerkez confirmed that 779 citizens have been tested in the past 24 hours and 14 of them tested positive for coronavirus.
This means that in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 784 people are positive for coronavirus so far, and 11.975 citizens have been tested. Women are slightly more affected in BiH with 54 percent of them infected with coronavirus compared to men (46 percent).
When it comes to cantons most affected are Herzegovina-Neretva Canton with 230 infected persons, then Sarajevo Canton with 108 coronavirus positive persons, in Zenica-Doboj Canton 107, while in West Herzegovina Canton 83 cases have been confirmed.
In Tuzla Canton 81 people are positive for coronavirus, in Central Bosnia 38 people are positive, in Bosnia Podrinje Canton 20, while in Posavina Canton three cases are registered.
There are 32 deaths registered, 18 men and 14 women, 22 of them are over 65 years of age, and these are also most vulnerable citizens in the EU countries, i.e. older persons with already weakened immunity.
There are currently 61 hospitalized patients in the Federation of BiH, with seven on a ventilator, but Čerkez noted as important information that a total of 169 people have recovered and 26 of them in the past 24 hours.
“Number of recovered patients is increasing and we have a continuity of positive test numbers, there is no increase, which will be a good basis for us to decide on easing certain measures already in the next week, and the first among them should be to allow persons older than 65 years and under 18 years to go out in certain days and hours,” Čerkez confirmed.
Speaking about lifting the measures, Čerkez said that personal hygiene measures, keeping physical distance and wearing masks and gloves would still have to be respected.
“The measures will be abolished successively, and I ask our citizens for a little bit more patience and not to compare our situation and measures with the measures in the region. We need to know that the first case in BiH was registered on March 9, while in Croatia the first case was registered on February 25. We have to be careful and more responsible as a society,” he explained.
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