Croatia detected 7,548 new COVID cases in the past 24 hours while another 55 people died as a consequence of the virus, the national COVID response team reported on Tuesday.

There are currently 49,528 active cases, including 1,800 hospitalised patients, 220 of whom are on ventilators.

Since the outbreak of the epidemic in Croatia, a total of 826,380 cases of the novel coronavirus have been registered, 13,212 people have died while a total of 763,640 have recovered, including 6,406 in the past 24 hours.

Currently, there are 26,439 people self-isolating.

To date, a total of 4,010,890 tests have been conducted, including 16,768 in the past 24 hours.

As of 17 January, a total of 4,974,705 doses of a vaccine had been administered, which is 56.23% of the total population or 66.94% of the adult population.

A total of 2,281,915 people have received at least one dose of a vaccine while 2,186,570 are fully vaccinated, which is 64.30% of the adult population.