A record number of 4,534 new coronavirus cases and 48 infection-related deaths have been registered in Croatia in the last 24 hours, the national coronavirus response team said on Thursday morning.

The number of active cases currently stands at 23,942, and 2,501 of them are being treated in hospitals, including 258 who are on ventilators.

Since February 25, when the first case was confirmed in Croatia, a total of 139,415 people have been infected with the novel virus, of whom 1,964 have died and 113,509 have recovered, including 3,154 in the last 24 hours.

Currently, 57,894 people are in self-isolation.

A total of 780,257 people have been tested to date, including 11,166 in the last 24 hours.

The latest number of 4,534 infections is a new single-day record. Only twice have more than 4,000 cases been recorded in a single day to date – on November 26 (4,009 cases) and November 27 (4,080).