Over the past 24 hours Croatia has registered 3,099 new coronavirus cases while 41 people have died as a consequence, the national coronavirus task force reported on Wednesday.

That is a significantly higher number of infections and deaths compared to Tuesday when 1,936 new cases and 25 deaths were registered.

There are 13,880 active cases in the country, including 1,955 patients in hospital care, including 185 on ventilators. There are currently 27,528 people in mandatory isolation.

Since 25 February 2020, when the first case of coronavirus was detected in Croatia, a total of 297,973 cases have been recorded, and 6,399 people have died as a consequence of the disease.

A total of 277,694 have recovered from the disease, including 1,274 in the past 24 hours.

As of 13 April a total of 605,423 doses of vaccines have been administered, inoculating 491,601 people. This includes only 113,822 Croatians who have received both shots and are considered fully immunized. Croatia has a population of around 4 million.