In the past 24 hours Croatia has registered 2,323 new cases of coronavirus while 47 people have died as a consequence of the infection, the national COVID-19 response team said on Tuesday.

There are now 19,161 active cases in the country, including 2,093 hospitalised patients, of whom 244 are on ventilators.

Forty-seven people have died.

Since 25 February, when the first case of coronavirus was identified in Croatia, a total of 108,014 people have been infected with the virus and 1,445 have died.

A total of 87,408 have recovered, of whom 2,390 within the last 24 hours.

There are currently 40,762 people in self-isolation.

To date a total of 692,048 tests for the virus have been conducted, including 8,944 in the past 24 hours.

127 residents of aged care facility in Lika-Senj County infected

Of 154 residents in an aged care facility for people with mental disorders in the central town of Otocac, Lika-Senj County, 127 are positive for coronavirus, the local COVID-19 response team said.

Seven have been hospitalised but none are in critical condition.

Fourteen employees of the home had previously tested positive for coronavirus.

Currently, there are 355 active cases of the infection in Lika-Senj County.

Since the outbreak of the epidemic in that county, 1,225 people have contracted the disease, 836 have recovered and 34 have died.