At today's session in Sarajevo, the Government of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina adopted information on the epidemiological situation in the FB&H on May 31, 2021, with proposed orders and recommendations of the Crisis Staff of the FB&H Ministry of Health.

The orders and recommendations were issued with a validity period of 14 days, starting from June 3, 2021.

Given the declining trend in the number of patients with COVID-19, the Government accepted the proposal of the Crisis Staff of the Ministry of Health to increase the number of people who can gather indoors to 50 and outdoors to 100 people.

It will also be allowed to organize larger gatherings with one of the conditions: possession of a negative antigen or PCR test, not older than 48 hours, or a certificate of having recovered from COVID-19, not older than six months, or a certificate of completed vaccination.

It is allowed to hold congresses, conferences and other educational gatherings, which could be attended by up to 100 people, and if the gathering has more than 100 people, participants must meet one of the three conditions as for other large gatherings.

It is allowed to hold professional outdoor sports competitions in the presence of spectators, with conditions of using up to 30 percent of the stadium's capacity, and not more than 500 people per grandstand. People in the stands must wear masks, and when entering and leaving the stadium, it is mandatory to respect epidemiological measures, for which COVID attenants are in charge.

The cantonal governments and the staffs of the ministries of health are allowed to introduce more restrictive measures based on the assessment of the epidemiological situation, with regular notification of the FB&H Crisis Staff.

The Government instructed the FB&H Crisis Staff to review the complete epidemiological situation in the FB&H before the 14-day deadline and make a risk assessment, in order to consider the possibility and need to change orders and recommendations and submit it to the FB&H Government.

The information on the epidemiological situation states that at the level of the Federation of B&H, the seven-day incidence is 14.5 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. Currently, in the 21st week, all weekly indicators are in decline.