Croatia has recorded 1,442 new coronavirus cases and nine COVID-related deaths in the last 24 hours, the national coronavirus response team reported on Friday.

The number of active cases in the country stands at 9,976. Currently, 657 infected people are being treated in hospitals and 40 of them are on ventilators, while 6,599 are self-isolating.

Since 25 February 2020, when the first case was confirmed in Croatia, 1,100,618 people have been registered as having been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, of whom 15,584 have died.

A total of 4,683,210 people have tested for the novel virus, including 5,016 in the last 24 hours.

By Thursday, 70.69 per cent of the adult population had received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, while 68.58 per cent of adults had been fully vaccinated.

On Thursday, 852 vaccine doses were administered and 101 persons received their first dose.