Schools and universities in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, have been instructed to immediately start teaching only digital lessons amid a new outbreak of the new coronavirus, the cantonal government announced yesterday.
Edin Forto, the canton’s prime minister, said: the only educational institutions that will continue to operate normally will be kindergartens and schools for children with special needs.
Citizens over the age of 65 and those with chronic illnesses are encouraged to restrict their movements and contacts as well as the use of public transport.
Bosnia has recorded 1,338 cases of SARS-CoV-2 in the past 24 hours, number unprecedented in the last three months. In Sarajevo alone, 566 cases and 7 deaths due to COVID-19 were confirmed.
According to the canton’s public health institute, 477 patients were hospitalized yesterday. The weekly number of cases in proportion to the population reached 872 per 100,000 inhabitants.
The first vaccines for the new coronavirus were given Wednesday to members of the medical and nursing staff in Sarajevo, but Mass immunization has not yet begun in Bosnia. The Balkan country expects 1.2 million doses of vaccines from the COVAX mechanism, which is led by the World Health Organization, as well as from the European Union.
In total, Bosnia has so far recorded 5,410 deaths due to COVID-19 out of a total of 140,990 SARS-CoV-2 cases.
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