There have been 255 new cases of the coronavirus infection in Croatia in the last 24 hours, and there are now 1,689 active cases, the national Covid-19 crisis management team reported on Thursday.

Of those active cases, 127 are receiving hospital treatment, including 13 placed on ventilators. In the last 24 hours, 2,397 people have been tested and since the outbreak of the infection on 25 February, 144,521 tests have been performed.

To date, 7329 people have caught the virus, and of them, 5,472 have fully recovered, while 168 have died.