Over the last 24 hours, Croatia has conducted 6,965 coronavirus tests, and 667, or 9.58 percent, have returned positive, the country's Covid-19 crisis management team reported on Thursday.

In the same period, there have been nine deaths linked to Covid-19, bringing the total death toll to date to 5,564.

Currently, Croatia has 3,558 active cases, of whom 740 are hospitalized patients, including 69 placed on ventilators.

Since 25 February 2020, when Croatia recorded its first case of infection with coronavirus, 1,368,448 tests have been performed, showing that 244,872 people have contracted the virus. Of them, 235,750 have recovered, including 422 in the last 24 hours.

There are now 14,456 people self-isolating in the country.