In the past 24 hours there have been 980 new COVID cases registered in Croatia while 45 people have died, the national COVID response team said on Thursday.

There are 5,210 active cases in the country, of whom 1,921 are patients in hospital treatment, including 176 patients are on ventilators.

Since 25 February when the first case was recorded in Croatia, there have been 223,097 registered cases of the novel coronavirus and 4,517 people have died as a consequence. A total of 213,370 have recovered, with 1,025 of them recovering in the past 24 hours.

Currently, 18,272 people are in self-isolation.

A total of 1,102,552 people have been tested for coronavirus, with 6,847 tests conducted in the past 24 hours, the response team reported.