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ZAGREB, 15 Nov 2021 -  Croatia has registered 1,135 new coronavirus cases and 55 COVID-related deaths in the last 24 hours, the national coronavirus response team said on Monday. Currently, 2,338 persons are being treated in hospitals, 287 of whom are on ventilators. In the last 24 hours, 3,602 people have been tested for the SARS-CoV-2 virus, of whom 1,135 (nearly one-third) have tested positive. There are 34,062 active cases in the country. A total of 24,145 people are self-isolating. Since 25 February 2020, when the first case of the infection was confirmed in the country, 539,887 people have been registered as having contracted the novel virus, of…

November the 15th, 2021 - Online shopping has always been the favourite way of getting things done from the comfort of your own home in other parts of Europe, but until recently, more precisely until the coronavirus pandemic erupted, it lagged here in Croatia. Things have now dramatically changed and numerous big players are entering the Croatian e-commerce world. As Novac/Jutarnji/Bernard Ivezic writes, the growth of Croatian e-commerce is fast heading towards numbers around the one billion euro mark next year, and as the hasty entry of large foreign players has flooded the Croatian online shopping market, an equally significant…

November the 15th, 2021 - Risnjak National Park (NP Risnjak) is very popular among locals and visitors alike. Home to a very diverse range of wildlife, three of Croatia's largest and most dangerous predators live within its boundaries - the bear, the lynx and the wolf. WWF Adria recently took to this national park accompanied by some Slovakian guests. As Marinko Krmpotich/Novi list writes, representatives of WWF Adria, the nature protection association, accompanied around a dozen guests from Slovakia, journalists and nature conservationists, as well as employees of local state institutions paying a visit to the country to get better…

November the 15th, 2021 - The best worker in the Republic of Croatia has been announced for 2021, and Zlatko Pisac of the Port Authority of Split has been crowned with that title. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, Zlatko Pisac (46), a senior expert advisor for seafarers at the Port Authority of Split, is this year's best worker in Croatia, for which he received 100,000 kuna in cash as a very handsome reward. He is the winner of this year's, otherwise the fourth competition for the best worker - A small lighthouse for big people/Mali svjetionik za velike ljude, which is…

November the 15th, 2021 - One Istrian town has set the record for the most primary school children in the Republic of Croatia in spite of the demographic crisis which has plagued Croatia for many years now. As Morski writes, according to the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), last year, almost two thousand fewer students were enrolled in primary schools across the country's cities than were enrolled back in 2019 - 225,789 students, and the year before that there 227,547 students. For this school year, the CBS hasn't yet published the data, but according to what can be seen from…

November 15, 2021 - Is Split winter tourism that hard to achieve? Croatia's second-largest city and the star of summer loses its buzz as soon as the seasons change. But it doesn't have to be that way. Our new TCN series looks at the Split businesses working hard in winter to give locals, and visitors, the environment they deserve. Continuing this week with Split winter tourism at Chops Grill.  I was lucky to be introduced to Jasmina, the owner of Chops Grill, in my early days with TCN. That is something I am grateful for to this day. Not only is Chops one…

November 15, 2021 - Croatia has qualified for the 2022 World Cup, making Zlatko Dalić the most successful Croatia national team coach we have seen.  Just over four years ago, Zlatko Dalić took over the Croatia national team at its worst. Led by Ante Čačić at the time, Croatia drew against Finland in Rijeka and needed an away victory against Ukraine to secure additional qualifications for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. Čačić was sacked, an unknown Dalić was announced as the coach, and proceeded to defeat Ukraine and Greece in additional World Cup qualifications. We all know what happens…

November 15, 2021 - The Croatia national team schedule in 2022 is slowly coming together after the Vatreni qualified for the World Cup at Poljud on Sunday. But the World Cup isn't the only big competition Croatia will play next year.  The Croatia national football team defeated Russia at Poljud on Sunday and qualified for the 2022 World Cup, which Qatar will host from November 21 to December 18 next year, reports Gol.hr. It will be Croatia's sixth World Cup and the third consecutive major competition in which the Vatreni qualified under coach Zlatko Dalić. In addition to the World…

November 14, 2021 - The Digital Nomad Association Croatia has a new director, Michael Freer. A LinkedIn post from Dutch entrepreneur, Jan de Jong, President of DNA Croatia: Please allow me to introduce you to Michael Freer - our newly appointed director at the Digital Nomad Association Croatia.I don't think we could have found a better person for this position. Aside from Michael's long trackrecord working for NGO's and social responsible organizations - he was also the moderator of 3 Award winning digital nomad conferences in Croatia. The combination of his deep understanding of the digital nomad subject - while having lived in Croatia…

ZAGREB, 14 Nov, 2021 - The Human Milk Bank, established at the KBC University Hospital in Zagreb, has fed nearly 300 babies hospitalised on pediatric wards since its foundation. The Human Milk Bank was opened in November 2019 and since then, of 400 mothers who expressed the wish to donate breast milk, 143 have become donors. To date 1,118 litres of breast milk have been collected, and 724 litres of pasteurized milk have been used for infant feeding, said the bank which celebrates its second anniversary on 15 November. The bank provides milk for babies in hospitals in Zagreb, Split, Osijek, Rijeka and Slavonski…