In the last 24 hours, Croatia has conducted 8,652 coronavirus tests and of them 2,293 (26.5%) have turned out to be positive, while 28 COVID patients have died, the country's COVID-19 crisis management team reported on Sunday.

Currently, there are 17,841 active cases, and of them 1,091 are hospitalised patients, including 131 placed on ventilators.

Since the first registered case of the infection with the virus on 25 February 2020, 445,325 people have caught it, and of them 9,038 have died and 418,446 have recovered, including 1,743 in the last 24 hours.

To date, over 3.03 million coronavirus tests have been conducted in the country.

In Croatia, 55.72% of the adult citizens have fully been vaccinated against this infectious disease.