The
COVID-19 pandemic in Bosnia and Herzegovina is part of the
worldwide pandemic of
coronavirus disease 2019 (
COVID-19) caused by
severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (
SARS-CoV-2). The virus was confirmed to have reached
Bosnia and Herzegovina on 5 March 2020, when a patient in
Banja Luka, who had travelled to
Italy, tested positive. Later on the same day, a second case, who was the son of the first case, was reported.
[2] On 21 March, 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.
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