Of 2,563 tests performed for coronavirus in Croatia in the last 24 hours, 129, that is 5%, have returned positive, and currently there are 4,342 active cases, the country's COVID-19 crisis management team reported on Monday.

Of those active cases, 874 are hospitalised patients, including 72 patients placed on ventilators.

Since 25 February 2020, when Croatia reported its first registered case of the infection with the novel virus, there have been 5,685 deaths linked to this disease, including eight fatalities in the last 24 hours.

To date, 1,431,342 people have been tested for SARS-CoV-2, and 251,174 have turned out to be positive. Of them, 241,147 have recovered so far, including 583 recoveries in the last 24 hours.

Currently, 17,840 people are self-isolating.