Coronavirus: 27 Croatians on ventilators, import of additional 250 units pending

The are offers of ventilators from the East but the machines must be inspected first, he said at a press conference of the national civil protection authority on Monday.

"Our fate is in our hands. The number of patients can be lower by the day. It's all up to us, to me, to us all," Beros said.

Persons ordered to self-isolate must notify sanitary inspectors or epidemiologists when self-isolation measures end.

The terms under which a patient can be discharged from hospital to isolate at home are being reviewed, said Alemka Markotic, head of Zagreb's Fran Mihaljevic Infectious Diseases Hospital.

Initially, more patients were young or middle aged and they recovered more quickly, she said, adding that those infected "are positive for coronavirus about 24 days and they will be under supervision 28 days because they aren't expected to be positive after that period."

Head of Croatia's public health service HZJZ, Krunoslav Capak, said most Croatians are complying with protection measures. He said his estimate yesterday that protection measures in Croatia would be in force until early June was his personal opinion.