News in English Uto, 17.03.2020. 15:25

First coronavirus infection confirmed in Mostar

Press release , FENA Photo/Archive

MOSTAR, March 17 (FENA) - The first case of coronavirus infection was confirmed in Mostar on Tuesday. It is a man admitted to the University Clinical Hospital (SKB) Mostar on Monday with his son.

"Two patients from the wider Mostar area - father and son, with respiratory problems and pneumonia - were admitted to SKB Mostar yesterday and were placed in the Department of Pulmonary Diseases.

During this morning at SKB Mostar they were tested for Covid-19, father’s results were positive while negative result was confirmed for his son," announced the Crisis Staff of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Social Welfare of the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton.