ZAGREB, Dec 30, 2020 - Croatia has registered 1,850 new cases of coronavirus in the past 24 hours and 65 people have died as a consequence, the national COVID-19 crisis management team reported on Wednesday.

There are currently 8,301 active cases and 2,608 are in hospital treatment and of that number 240 patients are on ventilators.

Today's numbers were registered after 6,322 people were tested in the past 24 hours. Since the outbreak of the epidemic a total of 1,010,668 tests have been conducted.

A  total of 208,446 cases of the infection have been registered since the start of the epidemic, and of them 3,860 have died.

A total of 196,285 patients have recovered from COVID-19 so far, with 1,157 recovering in the past 24 hours while 23,094 people are still in self-isolation.

ZAGREB, Dec 28, 2020 - In the past 24 hours 316 new coronavirus cases have been registered in Croatia and 68 COVID-19 patients have died, the national COVID-19 response team said on Monday.

The number of active cases is 8,036, including 2,720 hospitalised patients, of whom 256 are on ventilators.

Since February 25, when the new virus was first reported in Croatia, there have been 205,246 cases of infection, 3,739 COVID-19 deaths and 193,471 recoveries, including 2,245 in the past 24 hours.

Currently 30,780 persons are self-isolating. To date 996,935 persons have been tested for coronavirus, including 2,642 in the past 24 hours.

ZAGREB, Dec 27, 2020 - In the past 24 hours 618 coronavirus infections have been registered in Croatia, putting the total number of active cases at 10,033, the national civil protection authority said on Sunday.

A total of 2,691 patients are hospitalised, including 258 who are on ventilators.

In the past 24 hours, 3,628 people have been tested for the novel virus.

There have been 58 coronavirus-related fatalities.

Currently 35,484 people are in self-isolation.

Since the start of the epidemic on February 25, Croatia has registered 204,930 coronavirus cases, 3,671 deaths and 191,226 recoveries, including 2,171 in the past 24 hours.

To date 994,293 people have been tested for the novel virus.

ZAGREB, Dec 23, 2020 - Croatia has registered 2,763 new cases of coronavirus infection after more than 10,000 tests, as well as 66 related deaths in the last 24 hours, the national COVID-19 crisis management team reported on Wednesday morning.

The number of active cases currently stands at 15,957, and there are 2,843 COVID patients in hospitals, 291 of whom are on ventilators.

Since the first case of the infection was confirmed in Croatia, 200,086 people have contracted the disease, of whom 3,394 have died and 180,735 have recovered, including 1,855 in the last 24 hours.

There are currently 47,482 people in self-isolation.

To date, 974,507 people have been tested for the novel virus, 10,194 of them over the past 24 hours.

ZAGREB, Dec 21, 2020 - In the last 24 hours, of 4,614 performed for coronavirus, 766 have returned positive (16.6%), and there have been 80 COVID-related deaths, bringing the death toll to 3,257, Croatia's COVID-19 crisis management team reported on Monday morning.

There are currently 16,105 active cases, including 2,956 patients who are receiving hospital treatment. Of them 294 are placed on ventilators.

Since February 25, when Croatia registered its first case of the infection, a total of 195,728 people have contracted the novel coronavirus, and of them, 176,366 have recovered including 3,208 who have recovered from the disease in the last 24 hours.

There are currently 50,799 people in self-isolation.

Since the outbreak of the epidemic, Croatia has conducted 955,255 coronavirus tests.

ZAGREB, Dec 20, 2020 - Over the past 24 hours, Croatia has registered 1,975 new cases of the coronavirus infection and 76 deaths, the national COVID-19 crisis management team said on Sunday.

The number of active cases in Croatia today stands at 18,627, including 2,976 COVID patients in hospitals, 290 of whom are on ventilators.

Since February 25, when Croatia registered its first case of the infection, a total of 194,962 people have contracted the novel coronavirus, 3,177 of them have died, and 173,158 have recovered, including 3,390 in the last 24 hours.

There are currently 55,417 people in self-isolation.

To date, 950,611 people have been tested, 9,191 of whom over the past 24 hours.

ZAGREB, Dec 19, 2020 - In the past 24 hours 2,752 coronavirus cases and 78 COVID deaths have been registered in Croatia, the national COVID-19 response team said on Saturday.

The number of active cases has reached 20,118, including 2,873 patients receiving hospital treatment, 306 of whom are on ventilators.

Since February 25, Croatia has registered 192,987 coronavirus cases, 3,101 COVID deaths, and 169,768 recoveries, including 3,853 in the past 24 hours.

Currently 57,544 persons are self-isolating.

To date 941,420 persons have been tested for the virus, including 10,062 in the past 24 hours.

ZAGREB, Dec 18, 2020 - In the past 24 hours Croatia has registered 3,272 new cases of coronavirus after testing 10,849 people, while 68 people have died, the national COVID response team reported on Friday.

There are currently 2,918 hospitalised patients with COVID-19 and 294 are on ventilators.

The total number of active cases stands at 21,297.

Since February 25, when the first cases was confirmed in Croatia, a total of 190,235 people have been infected with the novel virus, of whom 3,023 have died and 165,915 have recovered, with 4,352 recovering in the past 24 hours.

Currently, there are 54,587 people in self-isolation.

So far 931,358 people have been tested for the virus, including 10,849 in the past 24 hours.

ZAGREB, Dec 16, 2020 - Croatian Public Health Institute (HZJZ) head Krunoslav Capak said on Wednesday that Croatia this week had a considerably lower three-day rolling average of new COVID-19 cases compared to past weeks and that it was now fifth in the EU when it comes to the number of infections.

At a press conference of the national COVID-19 response team, Capak presented three-day data, according to which there were 7,159 new infections this week, 9,019 new infections last week, while two weeks ago there were 8,269 such cases.

The HZJZ also calculated the cumulative COVID-19 incidence rate for Croatia, which is 43,903 cases per one million inhabitants, and there are four EU countries with higher rates -- Slovenia, Belgium, the Czech Republic, and Luxembourg.

There are still big differences in incidence rates between counties, with Medjimurje County having the highest incidence rate, followed by Varazdin and Krapina-Zagorje counties, while Dubrovnik-Neretva, Istria, and Pozega-Slavonia counties have the lowest incidence.

Capak also said that the decline in the number of new infections had nothing to do with the fact that rapid antigen tests, who had been widely used in the past two weeks, were not included in the statistics, and he explained that rapid antigen tests were not reliable in diagnosing new patients.

He stressed that there was still no reliable information when the COVID-19 vaccine would be registered in the EU, and therefore when it would arrive in Croatia.

"We have a promise from the manufacturer that it will deliver the promised quantities of the vaccine in January. Enough doses of vaccine have been pre-ordered for Croatia's entire population," Capak said.

He explained that it was not yet known how many health workers would be vaccinated because the data from the conducted surveys were not available for all counties.

Asked about the ethics of vaccines, he said there were differences in the technology of vaccine production, but that he personally did not know why some of the vaccines would be unacceptable for ethical reasons.

The head of Zagreb's Dr Fran Mihaljevic hospital for infectious diseases, Alemka Markotic, said that the Oxford and the Russian vaccine had been produced using fetal cells, in the same way, various vaccines had been produced in the past 55 years and which had been used to vaccine millions of people in recent years.

Markotic called on those who had recently got infected with COVID and had risk factors to contact their family doctors or COVID treatment facilities at an early stage of the disease.

ZAGREB, Dec 16, 2020 - In the past 24 hours 3,327 coronavirus infections have been registered in Croatia, bringing the number of active cases to 22,042, and 92 COVID-19 patients have died, the national COVID-19 response team said on Wednesday.

Currently, 2,907 patients are hospitalized, including 294 on ventilators, while 53,286 people are self-isolating.

Since the outbreak of the epidemic, Croatia has registered 183,045 coronavirus cases and 2,870 COVID deaths, while 157,773 persons have recovered, including 2,694 in the past 24 hours.

To date, 908,215 persons have been tested for the virus, including 11,387 in the past 24 hours.