BELGRADE (Sputnik) – Visit of Prince Charles of the United Kingdom to Bosnia and Herzegovina is postponed due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, Matt Field, the UK ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina, said on Friday.
Prince Charles planned to visit Sarajevo and Srebrenica from 17-18 March.
Bosnia has so far confirmed 18 cases of the coronavirus infection in the country, according to the health authorities.
As of 09:00 GMT on 13 March, the Department of Health and Social Care has confirmed 798 cases of COVID-19 in the UK after 208 new cases were confirmed during the previous 24 hours, the largest daily increase since the start of the outbreak. A total of ten people have died after contracting the disease in the UK.
The World Health Organization declared the spread of the novel coronavirus a pandemic. The total number of confirmed cases worldwide has surpassed 130,000, with a death toll of over 4,900 and recoveries exceeding 68,000.
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