Croatia has registered 1,170 new coronavirus cases and 41 infection-related deaths in the last 24 hours, the national coronavirus response team said on Friday.

There were 8,226 active cases on Friday, of whom 2,478 people were receiving hospital treatment, including 232 who were on ventilators.

Currently 23,233 people are in self-isolation. Since February 25, when the first case of infection was confirmed in the country, a total of 1,024,740 people have been tested for coronavirus, including 5,631 in the last 24 hours.

Since the start of the epidemic 212,007 people have been infected with the novel virus, of whom 3,961 have died and 199,820 have recovered, including 1,802 in the last 24 hours.