Croatia reported 3,525 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, while 44 people have died as a consequence of the disease, the national COVID-19 crisis management team said on Saturday.

Currently, there are 27,432 active cases in the country, including 1,707 hospitalised patients, 125 of whom are on ventilators while 16,387 are self-isolating.

Since the outbreak of the pandemic in Croatia, a total of 1,039,157 people have become infected, of whom 14,773 have died while 996,952 have recovered.

As of 17 February, a total of 5,178,043 doses of a vaccine have been administered and 56.78% of the total population or 67.54% of the adult population has been vaccinated.

A total of 2,304,151 people have received at least one dose of a vaccine while 2,224,390 people have been fully vaccinated, which is 65.35% of the adult population.