Croatia's health authorities reported on Wednesday that 2,588 new cases of the coronavirus and 26 Covid-related deaths have been recorded in the country over the previous 24 hours.

Croatia’s daily caseloads have been falling every day for more than a month now, after the most recent surge – fueled by the more contagious Omicron variant of the virus – had reached its peak in late January.

The rolling seven-day case count now stands at 9,136, the lowest it has been since early October 2021, some 20 percent down from the week before. The 14-day case count is now 20,481, nearly 60 percent down from the the previous two-week period. The death count is also falling, with 154 deaths recorded over the past seven days, compared to 180 in the week prior.

As of Wednesday, there were 9,716 active cases in the country, including 853 Covid patients in hospital care, a five-month low. To date, Croatia has registered more than 1 million of coronavirus cases, and the total pandemic-related death toll now stands at 15,276. This amounts to an average of 20 deaths per day since the first case was detected in the country on February 25, 2020.

Meanwhile, 2.3 million Croatians have received at least one shot of any Covid-19 vaccine so far, which health authorities translates to 56.9 percent of the country’s entire population. This is the calculation released by health authorities, which project the current population at little under 4.1 million – even though the latest 2021 census figures released in January by the state statistics bureau put the current population size at 3.88 million.

Some 2.23 million Croatians have been fully immunized against the disease to date, which health services claim translates to around 65.5 percent of adults – which implied that there are currently 3.4 million adults living in the country.

The vaccination drive has almost ground to a halt. Even though the vaccines are widely available and free of charge, the uptake among people who have not been vaccinated yet is very low – on Tuesday authorities reported that around 1,000 vaccine shots had been administered that day, including only 135 first-timers. Booster shots have been available as well since December, but authorities do not include their numbers in daily reports.

The daily figures come from official reports which only account for cases confirmed by PCR tests and which are reported daily to the World Health Organization and other international agencies. Positive results detected via rapid antigen testing, including at-home tests, are reported and tracked via a separate registry which are sometimes leaked to the local media and get conflated with official figures.