Sarajevo Implemented New Strict Lockdown Measures

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Sarajevo Implemented New Strict Lockdown Measures

March 19, 2021

A woman rides a bicycle passing the Holiday Hotel, which opened in 1984 as Holiday Inn, a luxurious accommodation for world s royalty, film stars and other dignitaries who came to watch the 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. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Authorities in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo have implemented lockdown measures to counter soaring coronavirus infections.

The Sarajevo government said a nighttime curfew will start on Friday, from 9 p.m. until 5 a.m.

All bars and restaurants will shut down starting Saturday, except for food deliveries.

Authorities say the measures are necessary because of a “drastically worsened” epidemiological situation in the city.

Bosnia has seen a huge spike in daily new infections which have soared to over 1,700 from just a few hundred a few weeks ago. This has put pressure on the already weak health system and caused a spike in deaths from COVID-19.

The Balkan nation of 3.3 million is yet to start mass vaccination of its citizens. The country has kept relaxed measures and ski resorts open throughout the winter season.

Many parts of Central and Eastern Europe are also seeing surges in new infections, which experts blame on more transmissible virus variants like the one first found in Britain.

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