Over the last 24 hours, Croatia has performed 8,396 tests for coronavirus and 1,673 of them, or 20%, have returned positive, the national Covid-19 crisis management team reported on Thursday.

Currently, there are 8,407 active cases in the country, and of them, 1,071 patients are receiving hospital treatment, including100 placed on ventilators.

In the last 24 hours, the death toll related to Covid-19 has increased by 10 to 5,838.

Since the outbreak of this infectious disease in late February last year, over 1.5 million tests have been performed, and 262,309 people have turned out to be positive. Of them, 248,064 have recovered, including 856 in the last 24 hours.