Bosnia's health authorities report first coronavirus death

Bosnia
# 21 March 2020 22:20 (UTC +04:00)

A Bosnian woman became the first to die of the coronavirus in the Balkan country, the manager of a hospital in the northwestern town of Bihac said on Saturday, APA reports quoting Reuters.

“The first victim is an elderly woman who died in the hospital even before her test for coronavirus showed positive. She had a history of chronic diseases,” Hajrudin Havic said.

Bosnia has declared a state of emergency over the coronavirus outbreak. [L8N2BA549]

It has so far reported 90 cases of coronavirus infections.

Bosnia’s autonomous Serb Republic imposed a night curfew as of Sunday and banned people over the age of 65 from leaving their homes.

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