Bosnian health authorities reported 22 new cases of Covid-19 over the past 24 hours, 16 in the Serb-dominated Republika Srpska (RS) entity and 6 in the Bosniak-Croat shared Federation (FBiH) entity.

The RS Health Minister Alen Seranic said that after testing 333 samples, 16 tests turned out positive. Six of the 16 newly-confirmed patients were male, while 10 were female, he said.

Seranic recalled that since the outbreak of the pandemic in Bosnia, the RS entity confirmed 1,217 cases of Covid-19. Of this number, 543 patients have recovered and 86 had died in this entity. He noted that a total of 20,335 people have been tested so far.

The FBiH entity’s Health Ministry said 873 samples have been tested over the past 24 hours, of which 6 proved to be positive.

The Ministry said that after testing 26,191 samples in this entity since the beginning of the pandemic, 999 were positive, of which 777 recovered and 37 had died.

Currently this entity has 185 active cases of Covid-19, the Ministry said.

Three deaths were reported as well, two from the RS and one from FBiH. All three patients were elderly with multiple chronic diseases, authorities said.

Bosnia’s Civil Affairs Ministry said that the total count of positive cases in the country now stands at 2,236, of which 1,336 recovered and 128 died.