ZAGREB, 20 Jan 2022 - In Croatia, 11,343 persons have tested positive in PCR tests and an additional 6,146 have been positive in rapid antigen tests in the last 24 hours, the national COVID-19 crisis management team reported on Thursday.
Thus, 17,489 cases set a new record after there were 16,017 new COVID-19 cases in the country on Wednesday.
Currently, there are 59,193 active cases, including 1,792 hospitalized COVID patients, of whom 195 are placed on ventilators.
Since the first registered case of infection with the novel virus on 25 February 2020, there have been 848,150 cases of infection so far. Of them, 775,657 patients have recovered, including 8,315 in the last 24 hours.
The death toll has climbed by another 43 fatalities in the last 24 hours to 13,300.
To date, 64.43% of adults have fully been vaccinated.
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