Croatia has registered 1,042 new coronavirus cases and eight COVID-related deaths in the last 24 hours, the national COVID-19 response team said on Friday.

The number of active cases currently stands at 5,691. Among them are 552 infected people who are receiving hospital treatment, including 59 patients who are on ventilators.

Since 25 February 2020, when the first case was reported in Croatia, 381,949 people have been registered as having contracted the novel virus, of whom 8,413 have died and 367,842 have recovered, including 678 in the last 24 hours. Currently, 11,647 people are self-isolating.

To date, 2,638,469 people have been tested for COVID-19, of whom 10,353 in the last 24 hours.

By 9 September, 3,321,265 COVID-19 vaccine doses had been administered, with 43.24% of the total population, or 51.92% of adults, having been vaccinated.

A total of 1,754,731 persons have received at least one dose of a vaccine and of them 1,643,710 have been fully inoculated (1,566,534 persons have received two doses and 77,176 have received the single-dose Jannsen vaccine), which is 48.70% of the adult population.