Croatia has recorded 8,971 new coronavirus cases and 48 COVID-related deaths in the last 24 hours, the authorities reported on Thursday.

The national coronavirus response team said on Thursday that currently there are 46,346 active cases in the country, among whom are 2,131 people being treated in hospitals, including 173 placed on ventilators, while 21,865 people are self-isolating.

Since the start of the pandemic in Croatia, 1,004, 804 people have been registered as having contracted the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, of whom 14,329 have died and 944,129 have recovered, including 7,477 in the last 24 hours.

To date, 4,375,754 people have been tested and 5,147,524 COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered. 56.68 per cent of the total population, or 67.44 per cent of adults, have been vaccinated. A total of 2,300,234 people have received at least one dose and 2,215,898 have been fully vaccinated, which is 65.12 per cent of the adult population.