In the past 24 hours 688 new coronavirus cases have been registered in Croatia, twice as many as the day before, and 15 COVID-19 patients have died, the national COVID response team said on Wednesday.

Currently, there are 2,679 active cases, including 791 hospitalized patients, of whom 63 are on ventilators, and 12,218 people are self-isolating.

To date, 1,321,336 people have been tested for the virus, including 7,763 in the past 24 hours.

Since 25 February 2020, when the new virus was first registered in Croatia, 241,048 people have been infected, 5,477 have died and 232,892 have recovered, including 195 in the past 24 hours.