Croatia's health authorities reported on Thursday that 1,625 new cases of the coronavirus and 23 Covid-related deaths have been recorded in the country over the previous 24 hours.

The figures seem to indicate that caseloads continue to drop following the most recent wave, which was fueled by the more contagious Omicron variant and which peaked in January. The rolling seven-day case count now stands at 10,411, the lowest it has been since mid-October, and around 40 percent down from the previous seven-day period which saw 17,634 confirmed cases.

The death count is also falling, with 181 deaths over the past seven days, compared to 285 during the week prior.

As of Thursday, there were 12,041 active cases in the country, including 1,130 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 15,145. 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.

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, 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 are sometimes leaked to the local media and get conflated with official figures.