Health Minister Vili Beros said at a news conference in Zagreb on Sunday that in the last few hours, there had been seven new cases of patients who tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total number of positive cases in Croatia to 46.

“There are five new cases in Osijek with the virus transmission within a family, and there are two more cases in Zagreb,” Beros said at the regular news conference which the civil protection authority has been holding every morning since the outbreak of the coronavirus.

The head of Zagreb's Fran Mihaljevic Infectious Diseases Hospital, Alemka Markotic, informed the news conference that all those diagnosed with the virus did not have serious symptoms.

Markotic also spoke about the importance of obeying the instructions for self-isolation.

Croatian Institute of Public Health head Krunoslav Capak said that the procedures at the border crossings had been simplified to enable easier flow of vehicles after traffic congestion in the last two days.