Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic on Friday cited the data released by the national health institute (HZJZ) about nearly 1.7 million Croatians having received at least one dose of one of the available vaccines against coronavirus, and once again urged everyone who has not to get vaccinated.

In the past 24 hours, 468 coronavirus cases out of 9,948 tests (4.7%) and one COVID-related deaths have been registered in Croatia, the national COVID-19 crisis management team said on Friday.

The number of active cases is 2,509 and there are 251 hospitalised patients, including 26 on ventilators, while 6,472 persons are self-isolating.

To date, Croatia has registered 368,887 coronavirus cases and 8,295 deaths, while 358,083 persons have recovered from COVID-19, including 313 in the past 24 hours.

Plenkovic wrote on his Twitter account that 1,691,778 adult Croatians had been given at least a shot and underscored that, worldwide, 2.5 billion people had gotten vaccinated.

“I call on all vaccine-hesitant people to get vaccinated,” the premier tweeted, explaining that vaccines are the best protection against developing serious symptoms of COVID-19.