In the past 24 hours 1,197 new coronavirus cases and 17 Covid deaths have been registered in Croatia, the national coronavirus task force said on Thursday.

The number of active cases is now 6,116, including 894 hospitalized patients, including 84 on ventilators, while 20,528 people are self-isolating.

Since the beginning of the epidemic in Croatia in February 2019, Croatia has registered 254,507 coronavirus cases, 5,726 Covid-19 deaths and 242,665 recoveries, – including 554 over the past 24 hours.

Health authorities say 1,454,984 persons have been tested for the virus so far, including 7,619 in the past 24 hours. The positive rate of tests over the last 24 hours was 15.7 percent.