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People march demanding the resignation of the government over the poor handling of the coronavirus pandemic in the capital Sarajevo, Bosnia, Tuesday, April 6, 2021. Bosnia has reported around 7,000 fatalities from the new coronavirus which is among the highest per-capita deaths rates in Europe. The protesters blocked traffic in a key central street in Sarajevo, while hundreds more joined in with their cars, honking horns through the city. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)
Bosnians protest over government's pandemic handling

Apr. 06, 2021 09:02 AM EDT

View of graves at Sarajevo cemetery Vlakovo, Bosnia, Friday, March 19, 2021. Hospitals and the morgue in Sarajevo are overwhelmed as dozens of people died in the past days since the sharp rise in virus infections has been recorded throughout the country. (AP Photo)
Bosnian capital tightens rules as COVID-19 deaths spike

By Eldar Emric Mar. 19, 2021 11:59 AM EDT

Doctors from the Amerikan Hastanesi hospital in Istanbul and local medical staff taking care for patients in the COVID-19 ward at a the General Hospital in the capital Sarajevo, Bosnia, Thursday, March 18, 2021. As Bosnia faces soaring coronavirus infections and rapidly-filling hospitals, two doctors from Turkey have arrived in Sarajevo to help and offer their insight in the treatment of COVID-19. Bosnia is seeing a huge rise in infections and hospitalizations after a period of relaxed measures and the winter season that saw ski resorts staying open unlike in most of Europe. (AP Photo)
As infections rise, Sarajevo's hospitals feel the pressure

By Eldar Emric Mar. 18, 2021 01:56 PM EDT

People walk in an empty street in downtown Rome, Monday, March 15, 2021. Half of Italy's regions have gone into the strictest form of lockdown in a bid to curb the latest spike in coronavirus infections that have brought COVID-19 hospital admissions beyond manageable thresholds. (Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse via AP)
Much of Europe tightens anti-pandemic rules as virus surges

By Frances D'emilio Mar. 15, 2021 10:44 AM EDT

A medical worker wearing protective gear, waits for patients to receive the COVID-19 vaccine in the capital Sarajevo, Bosnia, Wednesday, March 10, 2021. Vaccinations started from a batch of 10,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccines donated by neighboring Serbia. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)
Western Balkan countries to tighten virus rules amid surge

By Jovana Gec Mar. 10, 2021 10:51 AM EST

In this photo provided by the Serbian Presidential Press Service, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, left, and Muslim member of the tripartite Presidency of Bosnia Sefik Dzaferovic exchange fist bumps at Sarajevo Airport, Bosnia, Tuesday, March 2, 2021. Bosnia on Tuesday received 10,000 vaccines from neighboring Serbia amid a dispute with the international COVAX mechanism over a delay in planned shipments. Serbia's populist President Aleksandar Vucic flew to the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo to deliver the Astra-Zeneca vaccines to the authorities there. (Serbian Presidential Press Service via AP)
Bosnia receives jabs from Serbia amid COVAX dispute

By Eldar Emric Mar. 02, 2021 09:12 AM EST

FILE - In this Jan. 26, 2021, file photo, registered nurse Diane Miller pulls on gloves and other protective equipment as she prepares to enter patient rooms in the COVID acute care unit at UW Medical Center-Montlake in Seattle. The deadliest month of the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. drew to a close with certain signs of progress: COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are trending downward, while vaccinations are picking up speed. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)
The Latest: Wash. state warns hospitals on VIP vaccinations

By The Associated Press Feb. 01, 2021 04:19 AM EST

In this picture taken on Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2020, health workers wheel out a patient from an ambulance, at the entrance of the University Clinic complex in Skopje, North Macedonia. When thousands of people across the European Union simultaneously began rolling up their sleeves last month to get a coronavirus vaccination shot, one corner of the continent was left behind, feeling isolated and abandoned: the Balkans. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)
Balkans feel abandoned as vaccinations kick off in Europe

By Sabina Niksic And Dusan Stojanovic Jan. 06, 2021 03:18 AM EST

The Bosnian capital of Sarajevo is covered by layers of fog, Bosnia, Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020. With the arrival of cold and foggy winter weather, eastern Europe is facing another health hazard in addition to the new coronavirus pandemic _ dangerous air pollution. (AP Photo/Eldar Emric)
Air pollution in eastern Europe adds to pandemic health woes

By Eldar Emric Dec. 17, 2020 09:33 AM EST

A medic wearing full protective gear works in the corridor in the COVID-19 ward at a former military hospital in the capital Sarajevo, Bosnia, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020. Doctors in Bosnia, one of the hardest hit countries in the Balkans with the new coronavirus, are appealing on the citizens to respect preventive measures and help the ailing health system. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)
Bosnia doctors appeal for respect of rules amid virus surge

By Kemal Softic Nov. 19, 2020 12:30 PM EST

FILE - In this Friday, Sept. 7, 2018 file photo, Italy coach Roberto Mancini gestures during the UEFA Nations League soccer match between Italy and Poland at Dall'Ara stadium in Bologna, Italy. Italy coach Roberto Mancini has tested positive for the coronavirus days before the international break. The Italian soccer federation says that Mancini is “completely asymptomatic” and is self-isolating at his house in Rome. The Italy squad will meet up on Sunday. It plays an international friendly against Estonia on Wednesday and hosts Poland in the Nations League four days later. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni, File)
Italy's national team smiling again under Roberto Mancini

By Daniella Matar Nov. 19, 2020 10:32 AM EST

Belgium's Kevin De Bruyne, left, looks to pass the ball past England's Declan Rice and Dominic Calvert­-Lewin, right, during the UEFA Nations League soccer match between Belgium and England at the King Power stadium in Leuven, Belgium, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
MATCHDAY: Italy, Belgium eye Nations League finals spots

By The Associated Press Nov. 17, 2020 07:47 PM EST

Members of a mobile electoral commission prepare go to voters during local elections in the capital Sarajevo, Bosnia, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2020. Polls have opened at Bosnian local elections, where over 3 million voters will have the right to choose their local mayors and city hall parliaments members. Despite the huge number in positive cases and deaths from COVID-19 in Bosnia, thousands of people have flocked the polling stations early Sunday, wishing to choose their local leaders for next four years. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)
Opposition parties win major cities in Bosnia's local vote

By Sabina Niksic Nov. 16, 2020 04:28 AM EST

Members of a mobile electoral commission prepare go to voters during local elections in the capital Sarajevo, Bosnia, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2020. Polls have opened at Bosnian local elections, where over 3 million voters will have the right to choose their local mayors and city hall parliaments members. Despite the huge number in positive cases and deaths from COVID-19 in Bosnia, thousands of people have flocked the polling stations early Sunday, wishing to choose their local leaders for next four years. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)
Bosnians vote in local elections overshadowed by pandemic

By Sabina Niksic Nov. 15, 2020 10:05 AM EST

A a woman paints a pine cone during a therapy session in Sarajevo, Bosnia Monday, Oct. 26, 2020. As coronavirus cases surge in Bosnia, the pandemic is heaping new trouble on an impoverished nation that has never recovered economically or psychologically from a war in the 1990s. Bosnian health authorities estimate that nearly half of the Balkan nation’s nearly 3.5 million people have suffered some degree of trauma resulting from the war. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)
Pandemic heaps new fears and trauma on war-scarred Bosnians

By Sabina Niksic Nov. 06, 2020 02:53 AM EST

Tarik Svraka visits the graves of his parents in law, who died of COVID-19 related complications, in Zenica, Bosnia, Monday, Sept. 28, 2020. The coronavirus skeptics and rebels in Bosnia grow louder in step with the rising number of infections in the country. Recently, several families who lost their loved ones to COVID-19 were confronted online, and some even in real life, by scores of random virus believers and deniers sifting through their pain and questioning their relatives’ cause of death. (AP Photo/Almir Alic)
Bosnia: Unnerved by virus denial, survivors mourn their dead

By Sabina Niksic Oct. 03, 2020 03:20 AM EDT

FILE - In this Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2017 file photo, Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic enters the Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, to hear the verdict in his genocide trial. Mladic is appealing Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020 against his convictions for crimes including genocide committed throughout the 1992-95 Bosnian War. Mladic was convicted by a U.N. war crimes tribunal in 2017 and sentenced to life imprisonment for masterminding crimes by Bosnian Serb forces throughout the war that left 100,000 dead, an overwhelming majority of them Bosnian Muslim civilians. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, Pool, File)
Mladic lawyers call on UN judges to overturn his convictions

By Mike Corder Aug. 25, 2020 06:00 AM EDT

The Holiday Hotel, which opened as Holiday Inn, a luxurious accommodation for world's royalty, film stars and other dignitaries who came to watch the 1984 Winter Olympics, and less than a decade later, became ground zero of the bloody siege of Sarajevo in the 1990's, photographed from a nearby building, in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Wednesday, July 29, 2020. The bright yellow Holiday Hotel in downtown Sarajevo, a famous symbol of survival of the Bosnian capital, has seen good and bad times in its turbulent history, but now the landmark's survival is in more danger than ever, with the coronavirus pandemic leaving it with only a few occasional guests. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)
Sarajevo's landmark hotel faces hard times amid pandemic

By Eldar Emric Jul. 30, 2020 02:44 AM EDT

FILE - In this Friday, May 15, 2020 file photo, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, center right, speaks with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban during a meeting in Belgrade, Serbia. Serbia's president Aleksandar Vucic has cancelled his party's pre-election rallies and officials in Bosnia, Macedonia and Albania are appealing on citizens to respect protection measures after relaxation of rules against the new coronavirus led to a recent spike in cases in the Balkan countries. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)
With measures lifted, Balkans hit by coronavirus case spike

By Jovana Gec And Dusan Stojanovic Jun. 11, 2020 09:21 AM EDT

A woman holds a portrait of Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito, as people attend an anti-Nazi protest outside the Sacred Heart Cathedral during a mass commemorating members of the pro-Nazi Croatian WWII Ustasha regime, responsible for sending tens of thousands of Serbs, Gypsies and Jews to their death in concentration camps, who were killed at the end of WWII by Yugoslav communist troops, in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Saturday, May 16, 2020. Bosnian Catholic clerics along with Croatian state representatives and members of the Bosnian Croats community attended a religious service commemorating the massacre of Croatian pro-Nazis by victorious communists at the end of World War II. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)
Bosnians protest Mass in Sarajevo for Nazi-allied soldiers

By Sabina Niksic May. 16, 2020 11:09 AM EDT