Over the past 24 hours, Croatia has registered 2,543 new cases of the coronavirus infection and 42 related deaths, and this is the second day in a row that a record number of single-day fatalities was reported, the national COVID-19 response team said on Sunday.

The number of active cases in Croatia today stands at 15,678, including 1,396 COVID patients in hospitals and 145 on ventilators.

Since the start of the epidemic, a total of 67,247 people have contracted the novel coronavirus, 794 of them have died, and 50,775 have recovered, including 2,365 in the last 24 hours.

Currently, 31,427 people are self-isolating.

To date, 559,016 people have been tested for coronavirus, including 8,787 over the past 24 hours.