Over the past 24 hours 357 new coronavirus cases have been recorded in Croatia, bringing the number of active cases to 2,560, the national Covid-19 response team said on Friday.

Currently 212 patients are hospitalised, including 11 on ventilators, and three more persons have died.

Since February 25, when the first case was recorded in Croatia, 9,550 persons have been infected with the new virus, 180 of whom have died, while 6,809 have recovered.

Currently 8,780 persons are self-isolating. To date, 161,701 persons have been tested, including 2,065 over the past 24 hours.