Croatia's health authorities reported on Wednesday that 2,510 new cases of the coronavirus and 21 Covid-related deaths have been recorded in the country over the previous 24 hours.

The figures seem to indicate that the most recent wave, fueled by the more contagious Omicron variant and which peaked in January, continues to ebb at an increasing pace. The rolling seven-day case count now stands at 11,345, the level last seen in October and more than 40 percent down from the previous seven-day period which saw 19,536 confirmed cases.

The death count also seems to be falling rapidly, with only 180 deaths over the past seven days, compared to 310 during the week prior. This too is at the level last seen in late October.

As of Wednesday, there were 12,239 active cases in the country, including 1,183 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 15,122. 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 translates to 56.8 percent of the country’s entire population, according to calculations released by health authorities, which project the current population to total 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.

Authorities say that some 2.23 million Croatians have been fully immunized against the disease, which they claim translates to around 65.5 percent of adults, implying that there are currently 3.4 million adults living in the country.

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 some local media sometimes conflate with the official figures.