In the last 24 hours, Croatia conducted 10,218 coronavirus tests, and of them 2,022, or 19.8%, have turned out to be positive, the country's Covid-19 crisis management team reported on Wednesday.

The new cases numbers thus exceeded the mark of 2,000 daily cases for the first time in the last five months. In the last 24 hours, the Covid-related death toll has increased by 27 to 8,829.

There are currently 9,092 active cases, and of them 855 are hospitalized patients, including 128 infected patients placed on ventilators. As many as 17,305 people are self-isolating.

Since the first registered case of the infection with the novel virus on 25 February 2020, Croatia has conducted over 2.93 million tests which have detected 421,057 cases of the infection. So far, 403,136 infected persons have recovered  from this disease, including 971 recoveries in the last 24 hours.

Nearly 3.5 million coronavirus vaccine doses have been administered, and 54.91% of adult citizens have been given a shot. A total of 51.53% of adults have fully been vaccinated.