In the last 24 hours, Croatia has conducted 8,862 coronavirus tests and of them, 1,741 have been positive (19.6%), the national COVID-19 crisis management team reported on Tuesday.

There are currently 9,894 active cases, including 947 hospitalised patients, and of them, 128 are placed on ventilators.

In the last 24 hours, 21 COVID patients have died, raising the COVID-related death toll to 8,928.

Since 25 February 2020 when Croatia registered its first case of the infection with the novel virus, over 2.98 million tests have been conducted showing that 429,974 persons have caught the virus. Of them, 411,152 have recovered, including 1,125 recoveries in the last 24 hours.

To date, over 3.52 million vaccine doses have been administered, and 52% of the adult population have fully been vaccinated.