The tents set up by the army outside the Varazdin Hospital received first Covid-19 patients on Tuesday evening, the hospital management said.

According to the hospital head, Nenad Kudelic, patients who will be transferred to the healthcare institutions in Novi Marof and Klenovnik are being accommodated in those tents before their transport to those two towns.

There are three tents and each of them is with 30 beds.

More information will be given at a news conference, scheduled for 08.30 hrs Wednesday.

In the last 24 hours, there have been 242 new infections with coronavirus out of 534 tests in Varazdin County.

Currently, there are 201 Covid patients with serious symptoms in the Varazdin hospital, and 70 of them are at the infectious diseases ward, and 16 are in the intensive care ward.