In the last 24 hours 1,413 new coronavirus cases have been registered in Croatia and a record 18 persons have died, the national COVID-19 response team said on Tuesday.

The number of active cases is 11,311, including 897 hospitalised patients, of whom 57 are on ventilators.

Since February 25, when the new virus was first registered in Croatia, 38,621 persons have been infected, of whom 470 have died and 26,840 have recovered, including 1,003 in the past 24 hours.

Currently 27,720 persons are self-isolating.

To date 457,726 persons have been tested, including 8,185 in the past 24 hours.