Croatia has registered 4,428 new coronavirus cases and 62 COVID-related deaths in the last 24 hours, the national coronavirus response team reported on Thursday.

The number of active cases stands at 27,683 and among them are 2,352 infected persons receiving hospital treatment, including 321 who are on ventilators. A total of 24,305 people are self-isolating.

Since 25 February 2020, when the first case was confirmed in Croatia, 644,206 people have been registered as having contracted the SARS-CoV-2 virus, of whom 11,445 have died.

A total of 605,078 have recovered, including 3,904 in the last 24 hours.

To date, 3,548,144 people have tested for the new virus, of whom 12,833 in the last 24 hours.

As of Wednesday, 4,314,136 COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered, with 54.65 per cent of the total population, or 65.17 per cent of the adult population, having been vaccinated. A total of 2,217,755 people have received at least one dose and 2,009,860 of them have been fully vaccinated, which is 59.28 per cent of the adult population.