Croatia's health authorities reported on Wednesday that 7,868 new cases of the coronavirus and 37 Covid-related deaths have been recorded over the previous 24 hours.

The figure represents a 12 percent drop from 10,003 cases reported last Wednesday, on February 2. The rolling seven-day case count is now 43,908, or 21 percent down from the previous seven-day period, from January 27 to February 2, when authorities had reported 55,381 confirmed cases.

On Wednesday, there were 47,530 active cases in the country, including 2,188 Covid patients in hospital care. Croatia has registered 998,463 coronavirus cases to date, and the total death toll due to Covid-19 now stands at 14,281.

By Tuesday, around 2.3 million Croatians have received at least one shot of any Covid-19 vaccine, which translates to 56.7 percent of the country’s entire population, estimated to be close to 4.1 million. Authorities estimate that some 2.21 million Croatians have been fully immunized against the disease, which they claim translates to around 65 percent of adults, meaning they project that there are currently 3.4 million adults living in the country.

The daily figures come from official reports which only count cases confirmed by PCR tests and which are reported daily to the World Health Organization. A separate registry counting positive results detected via rapid antigen tests is sometimes leaked to the local media, who sometimes conflate these two figures.