Coronavirus: Croatia reports a new all-time high in daily cases

On Thursday, 6,310 cases have been reported, meaning that on Friday alone there was a nearly 10 percent jump in cases.

According to Worldometers.info, which collates official data released by health authorities worldwide, Croatia had the third highest case-per-million ratio in the world on Friday morning (1,703), behind its neighbor Slovenia (1,814) and the Cayman Islands (1,887), out of 44 countries and territories which had published their daily Covid statistics by noon. Day earlier, Slovenia and Croatia had ranked 3rd and 6th out of 174 countries and territories in the world.

According to health authorities, there are currently 28,541 active cases in Croatia, including 1,711 patients in hospital care, with 231 placed on ventilators. There are also 26,362 people in isolation. To date, there have been a total of 490,074 confirmed cases in the country (representing about 12 percent of Croatia's 4m population), and a total of 9,400 deaths.

As of Wednesday evening, around 3.6m vaccine shots have been administered, with 47.6 percent of the total population or 56.9 percent of the 3.3m adult population having received at least one dose. Around 1.8m - or 53.6 percent of adults - have been fully vaccinated against Covid.