In the last 24 hours, Croatia has performed 17,926 coronavirus tests, and 48 percent of them, or 8,555 have returned positive, while the infection has taken 32 more lives, raising the Covid-related death toll to 13,038, the country's coronavirus task force reported on Friday.

There are currently 55,789 active cases of the infection in the country, including 1,710 hospitalised patients of whom 205 are on ventilators.

Since the first registered case of the infection with the novel virus in Croatia in late February 2020, 802,745 cases of the disease have been reported so far, and 733,918 people have recovered from it, including 8,234 recoveries in the last 24 hours.

As many as 3.96 million tests for SARS-CoV-2 have been conducted to date.

So far, 56.11% of the total population have been vaccinated against COVID-19, or 66.81% of adult Croatians.