Over the past 24 hours 70 new coronavirus cases have been registered in Croatia, bringing the number of active cases to 2,002, and five persons have died, the national COVID response team said on Monday.

Currently 297 patients are hospitalised, including 24 on ventilators, and 9,159 persons are self-isolating.

Over the past 24 hours, 3,296 persons have been tested for the virus and 201 patients have recovered. To date 262,132 persons have been tested.

Since February 25, when the first case of infection was recorded in Croatia, 14,992 persons have been infected with coronavirus, 253 of whom have died, while 12,737 have recovered.