In the last 24 hours, there have been 1,871 new cases of infection with coronavirus in Croatia, the national COVID-19 crisis management team said on Saturday.

Also in the last 24 hours, the infectious disease has taken 22 more lives, bringing the COVID-related death toll to 15,012, which has thus passed the grim mark of 15,000 deaths in two years since the first registered case of the infection with SARS-CoV-2 in the country on 25 February 2020.

There are currently 16,610 active cases of the coronavirus infection, and of them 1,389 are hospitalised patients, including 104 placed on ventilators.

Since the start of the pandemic in Croatia, over 4.5 million tests have been conducted, and 5,666 in the last 24 hours. The data collected by the national COVID-19 crisis management team show that there have been a total of 1,053,568 cases of coronavirus in Croatia.

So far, 65.48% of adult Croatian have fully been vaccinated.