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January 8, 2022 - High prices in Croatia won't work for the upcoming tourist season as Mediterranean competitors came back into the game.  Croatian travel agencies are once again facing another challenging tourist year. Boris Žgomba, president of the Association of Travel Agencies at the Croatian Chamber of Commerce (HGK), said that Croatian tourism hopes for better results in 2022 than last year, but a fight awaits for every guest as other Mediterranean countries return with possible lower prices than Croatia, reports Novi List. "Behind us is a very bad 2020 and surprisingly good 2021 compared to what was expected. However,…

ZAGREB, 7 Jan 2022 - New restrictions on public gatherings will come into force on Monday due to a rise in the number of infections caused by the Omicron variant of coronavirus, Interior Minister and head of the national COVID-19 crisis management team, Davor Božinović, said on Friday. According to the new decision, the number of people allowed to attend public gatherings and events taking place outdoors is reduced from 100 to 50, while up to 200 people will be allowed to gather at events with COVID certificates and with a permission from the local COVID-19 crisis management team, Božinović…

January 8, 2022 - The latest flight news to Croatia as Lufthansa Rijeka-Frankfurt flights are boosted for the 2022 summer season.  Star Alliance member and German airline Lufthansa will increase the number of weekly rotations between Frankfurt and Rijeka in the upcoming summer flight schedule, reports Croatian Aviation. While Lufthansa has operated a regular flight between Munich and Rijeka for many years, in 2021, Lufthansa also introduced a regular line between Frankfurt and Rijeka, which was also in operation once a week, every Saturday. The company has announced operational changes to this line for the 2022 summer season. Namely, instead…

January the 8th, 2022 - Croatian festive tourism numbers have allowed the country a little optimism for what might be to come this tourist season when the warmer months roll around. Let's have a look at the numbers. As Marija Crnjak/Poslovni Dnevnik writes, Croatian festive tourism numbers are promising, as they signal that Croatia had three times more tourist traffic than it did the year before, but it is still a quarter less than before the pandemic, according to statistics released by the Croatian National Tourist Board. In the period from December the 24th, 2021 to January the 6th, 2022, we…

January the 8th, 2022 - Croatian PCR tests have become quite the hot commodity indeed as people wait for days not only for their results but to get their hands on one in the first place. This is not only due to a rise in the infection rate, but because the unvaccinated (the number of which remains high in Croatia) can get covid certificates based on a negative test result. For now, at least... Vesna Visekruna Vucina from the Croatian Institute of Public Health was a recent guest on New Day, where the situation with Croatian PCR tests and the…

January the 8th, 2022 - Deputy Rebro hospital director Milivoj Novak believes that there's no real point in continuing to test when we inevitably pass the mark of 50% of those being tested turning out to be positive for the novel coronavirus. He isn't for stricter measures, either. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, deputy Rebro hospital director Milivoj Novak, commented on the epidemiological situation in Zagreb's largest hospital for N1 as Omicron spreads. "The situation is primarily under control, we have a lot of testing going on, 620 people were tested yesterday, the percentage of those infected is high. What's important…

January the 8th, 2022 - The richest Croatian municipalities enjoy incomes as high as the 24 poorest in the country put together, which means there's some seriously huge wage disparity in Croatia. Rather unsurprisingly, they're all located in Istria. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, a new analysis undertaken by the Institute of Public Finance shows that back in pandemic-dominated 2020, the Istrian municipality of Medulin was the richest municipality in all of the Republic of Croatia. It generated the highest total revenues, totalling 77 million kuna, which is equal to the sum of the total revenues of the 24 poorest municipalities put…

ZAGREB, 7 January, 2022 - The head of the Croatian Institute of Public Health (HZJZ), Krunoslav Capak, told a news conference on Friday that  the Omicron variant of coronavirus was spreading rapidly, but was not yet the dominant variant  in Croatia. The fifth wave of the coronavirus pandemic in the country has begun as the fourth wave is subsiding, he said. "Hospitalisations always come 14 days later, and it may happen that their number will follow this surge in new infection caseloads," said Capak.  In December, a mere three cases of infection with Omicron were detected in Croatia. However, last Tuesday,…

ZAGREB, 7 January, 2022 - Members of the Serb Orthodox Church in Croatia on Friday morning attended Christmas services held in Orthodox churches in accordance with the Julian calendar. During the ceremonies, the Christmas message of the head of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Porfirije,  was read. At the liturgy held in the Serb Orthodox Church of the Holy Transfiguration in the downtown Zagreb, the head of the  Eparchy of Marča read Porfirije's Christmas epistle in which the dignitary greeted Christmas "with extraordinary respect and gratitude, to all the physicians and medical professionals. "I pray for the ill to recover promptly and for the plague…

ZAGREB, 7 January, 2022 -The Split Hospital Centre on Friday started implementing the HRK 54 million (€ 7.2 million) project of a state-of-the-art blood bank which should be completed by next summer. The future blood bank is partly financed from the EU funds. Split Hospital Director, Dr Julije Meštrović, said that the regional transfusion centre would certainly improve the health standard of patients. The project is being financed through the ITU mechanism of Split's urban agglomeration with the specific objective of renewing brownfield areas. The EU has set aside more than HRK 31 million for the project. Croatia's Health Ministry has ensured…