The total number of patients is 2,125, Maja Grba Bujevic, director of the Croatian Institute of Emergency Medicine, said at the daily press briefing.

Until now 41,930 persons have been tested for the novel coronavirus, including 877 in the past 24 hours. Also, 195 patients are currently hospitalised, nine fewer than on Wednesday, and 13 patients are on ventilators.

Another 40 patients have recovered from the virus, bringing the tally to 1,641, and 18,081 persons are self-isolating.

Grba Bujevic said the latest fatality was a patient at Zagreb's Fran Mihaljevic Hospital for Infectious Diseases, which brings the death toll to 86.