ZAGREB, 17 Sept 2021 - In the last 24 hours, Croatia has conducted 11,159 coronavirus tests, of which 1,394, or 12.5%, have returned positive, and nine patients have died, raising the COVID-related death toll to 8,481, the national COVID-19 crisis management team reported on Friday.
There are currently 7,991 active cases, including 651 hospitalised patients, 77 of whom are placed on ventilators. Also, 18,710 people are self-isolating.
Since the first registered case of the infection with this novel virus in Croatia on 25 February 2020, over 2.7 million tests have been conducted, showing that 389,654 people have caught the virus, and of them 373,182 have recovered, including 1.037 in the last 24 hours.
Since the start of the vaccine rollout in the country, 43.76% of the total population, or 52.52% of the adult population, have been vaccinated. The statistics show that 49.29% of the adult population have been fully vaccinated.
