In the last 24 hours, Croatia has performed 6,829 coronavirus tests and 577, or 8.5 percent, have returned positive, while there have been 14 deaths linked to Covid-19, the national Covid-19 response team said on Wednesday.

Currently, there are 2,596 active cases, and of them, 1,055 are being treated for Covid-19 in hospitals, including 92 on ventilators.

There are now 12,762 people in self-isolation.

To date, a total of 1,244,514 persons have been tested for the virus.

Since 25 February, when the first case of the disease was identified in Croatia, there have been 236,333 registered cases of coronavirus and 5,238 people have died as a consequence while 228,499 have recovered, including 296  in the past 24 hours.