Forty people have died in Croatia in the past 24 hours as a consequence of COVID-19 and 785 new cases of the novel coronavirus have been confirmed, the national COVID response team reported on Tuesday.

There are currently 20,562 active cases in the country and 1,543 hospitalised patients, with 185 of them on ventilators.

In addition, 23,291 people are currently self-isolating.

Since 25 February 2020 when the first case of contagion was identified in Croatia, there have been a total of 472,259 positive cases and the death toll now stands at 9,291.

A total of 442,406 people have recovered from the infection, including 3,067 in the past 24 hours.

To date a total of 3,113,199 people have been tested for the virus, with 2,887 tested in the past 24 hours.

As of Monday 3,617,177 doses of vaccines have been administered, with 47.11% of the total population or 56.43% of the adult population vaccinated. Of that number 1,911,771 people have received at least one dose and 1,798,141 people are fully vaccinated, which accounts for 53.18% of the adult population.