Croatia has logged 9,157 new Covid cases and 23 related deaths in the past 24 hours, with the latest infections putting the number of active cases at 55,500, the national coronavirus task force said on Thursday.

Among those infected are 1,755 people who are hospitalized, including 216 on ventilators.

Currently 22,292 persons are self-isolating.

Since 25 February 2020, when the first case was confirmed in the country, 794,190 people have been registered as having contracted the new virus, of whom 13,006 have died, while 725,684 people have recovered, including 6,685 in the last 24 hours.

A total of 3,941,654 people have been tested to date, including 19,786 in the last 24 hours.

A total of 4,901,094 vaccine doses have been administered, with 56.06% of the total population or 66.76% of adults having been vaccinated.