In the past 24 hours Croatia has registered 274 new cases of coronavirus and 18 people have died as a consequence, the national COVID response team reported on Tuesday.

There are 1,959 active cases in the country and 11,149 people are in self-isolation. There are 927 hospitalised patients, 84 of whom are on ventilators.

Since 25 February 2020, when the first case was registered in Croatia, there has been a total of 237,999 registered cases of coronavirus and 5,357 deaths as a result.

A total of 230,683 people have recovered from the virus, 299 of them in the past 24 hours.

To date a total of 1,275,009 people have been tested for the virus, including 6,686 in the past 24 hours, the COVID response team said.