Croatia registered a new record in daily COVID numbers on Wednesday with 10,427 cases, while 45 people have died as a consequence of the virus, the national COVID response team reported.

The latest number is based on PCR tests taken and does not include Rapid Antigen Tests. The last time a record number was detected was last Wednesday with 9,894 cases.

There are currently 56,208 active cases, including 1,796 hospitalised patients, 204 of whom are on ventilators.

Since the outbreak of the epidemic in Croatia, a total of 836,807 cases of the novel coronavirus have been registered, 13,257 people have died. while a total of 767,342 have recovered, including 3,702 in the past 24 hours.

Currently, there are 31,730 people self-isolating.

To date, a total of 4,031,182 tests have been conducted, including 20,292 in the past 24 hours.

As of 18 January, a total of 4,990,195 doses of a vaccine had been administered, which is 56.27% of the total population or 66.98% of the adult population.

A total of 2,283,377 people have received at least one dose of a vaccine while 2,188,899 are fully vaccinated, which is 64.37% of the adult population.