Croatia's health authorities reported on Friday that 1,351 new cases of the coronavirus and 27 Covid-related deaths have been recorded in the country over the previous 24 hours.

The caseloads have been falling every day for more than a month now, after the most recent surge – fueled by the Omicron variant of the virus – reached its peak in January. The rolling seven-day case count now stands at 9,732, the lowest it has been since mid-October, and more than 60 percent down from two weeks ago.

The death count is also falling, with 182 deaths over the past seven days, compared to 261 during the week prior.

As of Thursday, there were 10,879 active cases in the country, including 1,053 Covid patients in hospital care. To date, Croatia has registered a little over a million of coronavirus cases, and the total pandemic-related death toll now stands at 15,172. 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 to date, which translates to 56.8 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 Thursday authorities reported less than 1,300 vaccine shots had been administered, including only 186 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.