Over the past 24 hours Croatia registered 2,698 new coronavirus cases and another 44 deaths, the national Covid-19 task force said on Friday.

There are currently 16,053 active cases in the country, including 2,003 patients in hospital care 186 of whom are placed on ventilators. There are also 31,195 people in self-isolation.

Since 25 February 2020, when the first case of coronavirus was detected in Croatia, a total of 303,598 cases have been recorded, and 6,486 people have died.

A total of 281,059 people have recovered from the disease, including 1,908 in the past 24 hours. To date a total of 1,683,651 people have been tested for the virus, including 9,233 in the past 24 hours.

As of 15 April a total of 643,834 doses of vaccines have been administered, inoculating 519,375 people. Of that number, 393,002 people have received the first dose and 124,459 have received both doses. For 1,914 people there is no data on which dose they have received.