21 March 2022 - Croatia has recorded 292 new coronavirus cases and 16 COVID-related deaths in the last 24 hours, the national coronavirus response team reported on Monday.

The number of active cases currently stands at 9,488. Among them are 677 infected people who have been hospitalised and 40 of them of them are on ventilators, while 7,514 people are self-isolating.

A total of 4,623,826 people have been tested for the SARS-CoV-2 virus to date, including 1,679 in the last 24 hours.

Since 25 February 2020, when the first case was confirmed in Croatia, 1,084,304 people have been registered as having been infected with the novel virus, of whom 15,451 have died and 1,059,365 have recovered, including 1,485 in the last 24 hours.

By Sunday, 5,216,368 COVID vaccine doses have been administered, with 56.91 per cent of the total population, or 67.69 per cent of adults, having been vaccinated. A total of 2,309,480 people have received at least one dose and 2,236,175 of them have been fully vaccinated, which is 65.66 per cent of the adult population.

ZAGREB, 3 Sept 2021 - Croatia's road death toll rose by 19 or 10.9% to 193 fatalities in the first eight months of 2021 in comparison to the corresponding period of 2020, the interior ministry stated on Friday.

The ministry presented these data in a press release in which it called for additional caution in traffic during the new school year that starts on Monday.

One in four fatalities riders or passengers on mopeds and motorcycles

The ministry said that in the first eight months, 52 riders or passengers on mopeds and motorcycles lost their lives in road crashes, which means that they accounted for one in four fatalities.

One of the worrying indicators is that of the 55 car drivers or passengers who died in traffic accidents, 31 (56.4%) had not fastened their safety belts.

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