Salko Bukvarevic ‑ the minister for veteran affairs in the government of one of Bosnia-Herzegovina’s two highly independent regions ‑ died on July 29, 2020, at the age of 53, a week after testing positive for COVID-19.
Bukvarevic died in a COVID-19 hospital in Sarajevo, where he was admitted last week with pneumonia and breathing problems.
He had served in the government of the Bosniak-Croat federation since 2015. The region’s prime minister, Fadil Novalic, was also hospitalized with COVID-19 but was released Tuesday following two weeks of treatment.