Croatia's health authorities reported on Thursday that 6,341 new cases of the coronavirus and 48 Covid-related deaths have been recorded in the country over the previous 24 hours. This marks a new pandemic milestone as the number of cases to date has now surpassed one million, which is about a quarter of the country's population.

The current pandemic wave seems to be ebbing, as the rolling seven-day case count is now 41,434, or about 23 percent down from the previous seven-day period, from January 28 to February 3, when authorities had reported 53,969 confirmed cases. The death count also seems to be falling, with 340 deaths over the past seven days, compared to 364 in the previous week.

On Thursday, there were 46,346 active cases in the country, including 2,131 Covid patients in hospital care. To date, Croatia has registered 1,004,804 coronavirus cases to date, and the total death toll due to Covid-19 now stands at 14,329.

Around 2.3 million Croatians have received at least one shot of any Covid-19 vaccine, which translates to 56.7 percent of the country’s entire population, estimated to be close to 4.1 million. Authorities estimate that some 2.21 million Croatians have been fully immunized against the disease, which they claim translates to around 65 percent of adults, meaning they project that there are currently 3.4 million adults living in the country.

The daily figures come from official reports which only count cases confirmed by PCR tests and which are reported daily to the World Health Organization. A separate registry counting positive results detected via rapid antigen tests is sometimes leaked to the local media, who sometimes conflate these two figures.