In the last 24 hours, of 8,748 coronavirus tests performed in Croatia, 2,360 or 27% have returned positive, and there have been 73 COVID-related fatalities bringing the death toll to 2,778, the country's COVID-19 crisis management team reported on Tuesday.

There are currently 21,861 active cases, and of them 2,897 are receiving hospital treatment, including 304 patients placed on ventilators.

As many as 51,108 people are self isolating.

Since 25 February, when Croatia confirmed the first case of the infection with the novel virus, 179,718 people have caught coronavirus, and of them, 155,079 have recovered.

So far, 896,828 tests have been conducted.