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ZAGREB, 5 Oct, 2021 - Varaždin County's department of emergency medicine on Tuesday was provided with three new vehicles for non-emergency patient transport, and this procurement was worth about a million kuna (€133,000). During the vehicle takeover ceremony, County Prefect Anđelko Stričak said that emergency medicine, fire-fighters, the police, the army, the civil protection units and mountain rescue service were the essential elements of homeland security. Stričak said that the county's department of emergency medicine had 41 vans in its fleet, and 32 of those vehicles were for non-emergency medical transport while nine were ambulances. Annually, 65,000 patients use the services of this…

ZAGREB, 5 Oct, 2021 - In an effort to increase employment of the Roma community in Međimurje, the Justice and Public Administration Ministry has launched a pilot project for Roma mentors, which was presented in Čakovec on Tuesday. The pilot project is being implemented within a project to improve the protection of human rights and public security through strengthening capacities in probation services. The project is valued at €2.1 million and it is being financed from the Norwegian Financial Mechanism. Part of the funds is earmarked for the employment of six Roma from Međimurje County for a period of 19 months as Roma…

October 5, 2021 - Handball club NEXE from Našice will play in the EHF European League Group C! Although the impressions have not yet subsided after the NEXE handball team made up for 6 goals against the Danish club Bjerringbro Silkeborg and qualified for the European League, the future is already being planned in Našice. The European League groups have been drawn in Vienna. Slobodan Kadic NEXE was in the last pot this time. Regardless, the draw could have been better. The Našice club is in group C with the German team Magdeburg, French PAUC, Swedish Savehof, Spanish Logron la…

October 5, 2021 - When it comes to Croatian tourism, wine and camps are always part of the conversation in almost all regions of the country. In Međimurje, a family has combined both concepts, and it is thus that the Hažić Wine Camp has recently been recognized for its wine and accommodation offer. This year, the Hažić family opened the first wine camp in Croatia, located in Međimurje, more precisely in Sveti Martin na Muri. As Turističke Priče reports, the aforementioned wine camp received the OK Mini Camps quality award and was thus included among one of the best small…

October 5, 2021 - The October Croatian tourism campaign thanks visitors for their trust in choosing Croatia in 2021. The Croatian National Tourist Board has launched a new promotional campaign, "Thank you for your trust," on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter reports HTZ. The campaigns will be conducted in the ten most important markets from which the most significant tourist turnover was achieved in Croatia this year, i.e., in the markets of Germany, Slovenia, Poland, Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Italy, the Netherlands, and France. This campaign aims to draw additional attention to Croatia after the summer months through the…

ZAGREB, 5 Oct 2021 -  In the past 24 hours, Croatia has conducted 9,320 coronavirus tests and 11.5% of them, that is 1,074, have returned positive, and 19 COVID patients have died, the national COVID response team reported on Tuesday. There are currently 7,913 active cases in the country, with 823 hospitalised patients and 107 of them are on ventilators. Since 25 February 2020 when the first case of COVID was registered in Croatia to date there have been a total of 409,992 positive cases to the novel coronavirus and 8,704 people died as a consequence. A total of 393,375 people…

October 5, 2021 - The CDC (United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) has warned against US travel to Croatia.  On Monday, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned against travel to Croatia, Armenia, Austria, Barbados, and Latvia due to rising COVID-19 cases. The CDC raised its travel recommendations to “level 4, very high” and told Americans that they should avoid traveling to those five countries. "Avoid travel to Croatia. If you must travel to Croatia, make sure you are fully vaccinated before travel," the CDC said. The CDC encourages travelers to be fully vaccinated before travel,…

October the 5th, 2021 - The Croatian company Sinitech based in the continental city of Sisak, has seen its revenues soar in spite of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic which caused tremendous issues for the economy last year. They're doing so well, in fact, that they need to turn jobs away from time to time. As Poslovni Dnevnik/Darko Bicak writes, an inspector from the TÜV delivery had nothing but praise for the Croatian company Sinitech when checking things out for a client in the UK, stating: ''over the 20 years I've been in this business, I haven't seen anything like this produced in…

October the 5th, 2021 - The Osijek International Digital Agriculture study is set to put this often overlooked Eastern Croatian city into the spotlight as the first generation of students of this study begin enrolling. As Poslovni Dnevnik/Marta Duic writes, this year, the Faculty of Agrobiotechnical Sciences (FAZOS) and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Computing and Information Technologies (FERIT) in the City of Osijek are enrolling the first generation of students in the graduate university study of Digital Agriculture. It is a study with the participation of professors and lecturers from abroad, classes will be held in English, and enrollment…

October the 5th, 2021 - 2020 was an extremely difficult year for the entire world, and Croatian companies were by no means immune to the dire and unprecedented crisis which dominated the economic picture and halted the world as we knew it. That said, some Croatian companies enjoyed high revenues and incomes. The following performed the best, according to Fina. As Novac/Jutarnji writes, the analysis of the Financial Agency (Fina) on the top 50 Croatian companies in terms of total revenue by type of ownership, showed that enterprises operating in the private sector back in pandemic-dominated 2020 generated the highest…