ZAGREB, 29 May 2021 - In the last 24 hours, 5,971 tests have been conducted for coronavirus, and 5.6%, that is 338 have turned out to be positive, Croatia's COVID-19 crisis management team reported on Saturday.

The COVID-related death toll has risen by 10 to 8,002.

There are currently 2,557 active cases, including 819 hospitalised patients of whom 88 are on ventilators.

Since 25 February 2020 when Croatia registered its first case of infection with coronavirus, more than two million tests have been conducted, showing that 355,955 people have caught the virus. Of them 345,396 have recovered, including 497 recoveries in the last 24 hours.

Currently, 11,510 people are self-isolating.

Over 1.72 million COVID vaccines administered so far

By Friday, 1,722,430 doses of vaccines against this infectious disease have been administered in Croatia. So far, 1.254,659 people have received at least one shot of the vaccine, and of them 467,771 have fully been vaccinated.

On Friday alone, 35,845 vaccine jabs were given.

ZAGREB, 26 May, 2021 - In the past 24 hours, Croatia has registered 538 new coronavirus cases and 21 related deaths, the national COVID-19 response team reported on Wednesday.

That number is a little higher than yesterday, when there were 323 new cases and 21 deaths.

There are currently 3,112 active cases in the country and 1,034 hospitalised patients, 102 of whom are on ventilators.

Since 25 February 2020, when the first case of the novel coronavirus was detected in the country, there have been 354,921 registered cases of the contagion and 7,971 fatalities.

A total of 343,838 people have recovered, 424 of them in the past 24 hours.

There are currently 12,360 people in self-isolation.

A total of 1,988,226 people have been tested for COVID-19, including 6,830 in the past 24 hours.

As at 25 May, 1,608,291 doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered, with 1,197,164 people having received at least one dose and 411,127 having received both shots.

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ZAGREB, 25 May, 2021 - In the past 24 hours 323 coronavirus cases and 21 deaths have been registered in Croatia, the national COVID-19 response team said on Tuesday.

There are 3,019 active cases, including 1,109 hospitalised patients, 109 of whom are on ventilators, while 12,207 persons are self-isolating.

So far Croatia has registered 354,383 coronavirus cases, including 7,950 deaths, while 343,414 persons have recovered, 546 of whom in the past 24 hours.

To date 1,981,396 persons have been tested for the virus, including 7,695 in the past 24 hours, and 1,605,287 vaccine doses have been administered, with 1,195,088 persons receiving the first shot and 410,199 both doses.

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May 23, 2020 - Early this morning, Mario Celinić became the sixth Croat to climb Mount Everest.

As Jutarnji List reports, they set off for the final ascent on Saturday around 6 pm local time, arriving at the top early this morning. That means he has a whole day ahead of him to go down, which are good circumstances.

Stipe Božić climbed Everest in 1979 and 1989. In 2009, four women's mountaineering expeditions climbed - sisters Darija and Iris Bostjačić, Ena Vrbek, and Milena Šijan.

This year proved to be complicated for the ascent of Everest due to the pandemic that reached the base camp as well. At one point, Celinić tested positive for coronavirus at base camp. A few days after completing the first part of the acclimatization and the first rotation, he returned to Kathmandu by helicopter.

Mario Celinić | Mario Celinić Facebook

He spent seven days at the hotel, passing tests every day as his Covid-19 was asymptomatic. He was feeling well physically and impatiently waiting to return to base camp, knowing he was missing the part of the acclimatization he would have to do, and the time to climb Everest was limited in May.

Then, saying what a physical and mental profile a man must be to decide to climb Everest, he wrote: 

"You have to be physically strong enough to handle your weight and a ten-pound backpack. You have to have mountaineering experience. You have to know how to climb ice and rocks and be used to scenes of heights, abysses. You have to be prepared for cold, headaches, insomnia. ...

What I feared most, what I was weak with, and what I had yet to overcome was patience and unpredictable situations. I like to have things under control and know at least a general situation. I was ready, and I accept the situation that I will have to sit in a tent if I need ten days due to bad weather or that it will be crowded on the climb, so I will stand for two hours waiting in line ... I was by no means prepared for coronavirus."

When they told him that his coronavirus test was positive, he was mentally shaken. "That's why I didn't call almost anyone. The day after I gave an interview to Jutarnji List about how Covid-19 came to the Everest base camp, I got a positive test. Before I had to go on the first rotation up to 7000 meters and do the final training and acclimatization, we took a Covid test. I was then transported by helicopter to Kathmandu for self-isolation. I spent eight days there lying in bed in a hotel room completely healthy or at least without the symptoms caused by the corona. There were nights when I cried because I wasn't where I was supposed to be. Then I consoled myself that I wasn’t sick, at least because there were people on the team with pretty bad symptoms. Severe cough, fever ... some ended up in the hospital. I got tested every day, but the test was always positive. That destroyed me. At times I forgot why I was here at all. Some people from the team who had symptoms after five days got a negative test and returned to the mountain. I lay in bed healthy and get a positive test every day. That broke me. I didn't count on that. I asked for a second opinion. I started yelling at everyone and everything. I wanted to leave the team, leave the agency and climb the mountain on my own. I thought, 'who can forbid me?."

However, after seven days of psychological agony, Celinić received a negative test.

"Both me and the man from the agency that took care of the climbers cried. He drove me to the hospital every day, and he cried when I got a negative test because he couldn't look at me so broken anymore. Before he gave me the test, he clenched his fists and lifted them into the air as if he had won something and told me, "Mario, you beat Covid. You're finally negative." And then we cried. All there was to do now was arrange a ride back."

The organizers recommended that he not return immediately to the base camp, at an altitude of about 5,300 meters, because the body had lost acclimatization. They suggested that he be taken away and lowered to a slightly lower Lobuche so that he could walk to the base camp on foot for two days. 

"Of course, I flew directly to the base camp and in two days was in the first altitude camp above the ice waterfall at 6000m. If my guide and friend Big Tendi hadn't answered me, I would probably be coming down from the top now. Or maybe not ..." said Celinić. 

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ZAGREB, 23 May, 2021 - In the past 24 hours 251 coronavirus cases and 20 COVID-19 deaths have been registered in Croatia, with the number of active cases at 3,881, the national COVID-19 response team said on Sunday.

Of 1,202 hospitalised COVID-19 patients, 123 are on ventilators.

Croatia has registered 353,986 coronavirus cases to date, including 7,903 fatalities, while 342,202 persons have recovered from it, including 711 in the past 24 hours.

Currently 14,645 persons are self-isolating.

To date 1,970,997 persons have been tested for the virus, including 5,612 in the past 24 hours.

Through 22 May, 1,581,292 vaccine doses have been administered, with 1,179,998 persons receiving both shots and 401,294 one.

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ZAGREB, 22 May 2021 - Germany has taken Croatia off the red list of countries with a high risk of coronavirus, the Robert Koch Institute said on Friday, a step that will facilitate travel to Germany.

As of midnight on Sunday, Croatia will no longer be considered a high-risk but a risk region, the federal institute of epidemiology said.

That means that upon arriving in Germany, travellers from Croatia will not have to go into mandatory ten-day quarantine but produce a negative coronavirus test. Until now they could end quarantine after five days with a negative test.

For those travelling to Germany by plane, a negative test before boarding is still required.

A test is not required for persons who have received both doses of a COVID-19 vaccine or have recovered from the disease.

However, travellers from Croatia, like all those arriving in Germany from high-risk or risk regions, must register in advance at the German government's website.

The level of risk has also been reduced for travellers from Slovenia and France. Most countries in Southeast Europe, including Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia, were declared risk instead of high-risk regions last week.

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ZAGREB, 21 May (Hina) - Of 5,829 tests performed for coronavirus in Croatia in the last 24 hours, 525 (9%) have returned positive, the national COVID-19 crisis management team reported on Friday.

The COVID-related death toll has risen by 28 to 7,856.

Currently, there are 4,633 active cases including 1,331 hospitalised patients of whom 131 are placed on ventilators.

 Also, 16,591 people are self-isolating.

Since the first registered case of the infection with coronavirus on 25 Februar 2020, nearly 1.96 million tests  for coronavirus have been performed. They have shown that 353,217 people have caught the virus, and of them, 340,728 have recovered to date, including 948 recoveries in the last 24 hours.

Since the start of the implementation of the national COVID-19 vaccine rollout plan, more than 1.5 million vaccine doses have been administered.

Thus, 1,149,941 people have been given at least one shot of the coronavirus vaccine and of them 357,412 have been fully vaccinated.

The share of the inoculated population is 28.3%, and when it comes to the adult population, 34.2% of them have got vaccinated to date.

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ZAGREB, 20 May 2021 - Over the past 24 hours, Croatia has registered 695 new cases of coronavirus infection and 36 related deaths, the national COVID-19 crisis management team said on Thursday.

The number of active cases stands at 5,084. There are 1,416 COVID patients in hospitals, 148 of whom are on ventilators, and 17,490 people are in self-isolation.

To date, 1,953,059 people have been tested for the novel virus, including 7,038 in the last 24 hours.

Since 25 February 2020, when Croatia confirmed its first case of the infection, 352,692 people have been registered as having contracted coronavirus and 7,828 of them have died.

A total of 1,450,169 doses of vaccine have been administered. A total of 1,109,161 people have received one dose and 341,008 have received both doses.

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ZAGREB, 20 May 2021 - As of today, every third adult in Croatia has been vaccinated against COVID-19, the Croatian Public Health Institute (HZJZ) said on Thursday.

On Wednesday, 19 May, 43,890 doses of the vaccine were used, and the number of persons that have received at least one dose reached 1,109,161, which is 27% of the population or 33% of the adult population, while 341,008 persons have received both doses.

According to data from the eCijepih platform, as of 20 May, every third adult in Croatia has been vaccinated, which is a big step forward compared to early May, when on 1 May every fifth adult citizen of Croatia had been vaccinated, the HZJZ said.

First dose vaccine coverage is highest in Zagreb, 31% of the total population or 37.6% of the adult population, and second dose vaccine coverage is highest in Sisak-Moslavina County, 12% of the population or 14.4% of adults.

"These are encouraging data that give us reason for optimism when it comes to meeting the goal of vaccinating over a half of Croatia's adult population by the end of June. Vaccination is going according to plan, the epidemiological situation is better than in previous weeks and this is certainly good news, especially in the context of the upcoming tourist season," said HZJZ deputy director Ivana Pavić Šimetin.

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ZAGREB, 19 May, 2021 - Over the past 24 hours, Croatia has registered 1,000 new cases of coronavirus infection and 27 related deaths, the national COVID-19 crisis management team said on Wednesday.

The number of active cases today stands at 5,223. There are 1,508 COVID patients in hospitals, 163 of whom are on ventilators, and 17,102 people are in self-isolation.

To date, 1,946,021 people have been tested for the novel virus, including 8,426 in the last 24 hours.

Since 25 February 2020, when Croatia confirmed its first case of the infection, 351,997 people have been registered as having contracted coronavirus, 7,792 of them have died, and 338,982 have recovered, including 621 over the past 24 hours.

As at 18 May, 1,406,279 doses of vaccine have been administered. A total of 1,078,103 people have received one dose and 328,176 have received both doses.

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