Another case of coronavirus infection was confirmed by the Fran Mihaljevic Hospital for Infectious Diseases in Zagreb on Tuesday, bringing the total number of the people infected in Croatia to 14, the national civil protection authority said.

The newly-infected person has been admitted to the Pula General Hospital.

Health Minister Vili Beros said that the patient had been in close contact with the second infected person in Pula and that both of them worked in Italy.

Closing schools not an option

The epidemiological situation in Europe is not good, and it is getting worse in many countries, including Italy, said Davor Bozinovic, the head of the national civil protection authority.

Croatia has imposed a mandatory quarantine on all arrivals from Italy. There are quarantines in Zagreb, Istria County and Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, but as yet no one has been admitted to them.

Our civil protection teams immediately started acting in line with yesterday's decisions, and all measures concerning public gatherings have been put into place, Bozinovic underscored.

Today 193 Italian citizens entered Croatia and 24 of them returned to the county of their own volition.

Bozinovic said that closing schools, nursery schools and universities was not an option for Croatia at the moment.

Six new coronavirus cases confirmed in Slovenia

The total number of coronavirus cases in Slovenia rose from last night's 25 to 31 on Tuesday, Slovenian Health Minister Ales Sabeder said at a press conference.

A total of 1,643 people have been tested for the virus to date, he said, adding that 280 more samples are still being tested.