In the past 24 hours Croatia has registered 4,966 new cases of the infection with coronavirus and 59 COVID patients have died, which has been the highest daily fatality number so far, the national COVID response team reported on Tuesday.

There are currently 1,952 hospitalised COVID patients and of them, 253 are on ventilators.

At the same time, there are 30,381 active cases in the country and 22,408 people are self-isolating.

To date, a total of 3,197,585 tests have been taken with 12,925 samples taken in the past 24 hours.

Since the outbreak of the pandemic, there have been 507,535 registered cases of contagion in Croatia and 9,605 people have died, while 467,549 people have recovered.