Over the past 24 hours 291 new coronavirus cases have been registered in Croatia and two persons have died, the national Covid response team said on Thursday.

The number of active cases is 2,567, including 320 hospitalised patients, 27 of whom are on ventilators, the team said in a press release.

Since February 25, when the first case was recorded in Croatia, 12,917 persons have been infected with the virus, 208 have died, and 10,142 have recovered.

Currently 8,711 persons are self-isolating.

A total of 205,256 persons have been tested to date, including 4,118 over the past 24 hours.