Croatia has recorded 141 new coronavirus cases and 18 COVID-related deaths in the last 24 hours, the national coronavirus response team reported on Monday.

The number of active cases currently stands at 8,497. Among them are 774 infected people who have been hospitalised and 51 of them are on ventilators, while 6,441 people are self-isolating.

A total of 4,585,240 people have been tested for the SARS-CoV-2 virus to date, including 1,348 in the last 24 hours.

Since 25 February 2020, when the first case was confirmed in Croatia, 1,073,527 people have been registered as having been infected with the novel virus, of whom 15,354 have died and 1,049,676 have recovered, including 1,456 in the last 24 hours.

By Saturday, 5,209,291 COVID vaccine doses have been administered, with 56.89 per cent of the total population, or 67.66 per cent of adults, having been vaccinated. A total of 2,308,535 people have received at least one dose and 2,234,396 of them have been fully vaccinated, which is 65.61 per cent of the adult population.