Croatia's health authorities reported on Friday that 5,169 new cases of the coronavirus and 44 Covid-related deaths have been recorded in the country over the previous 24 hours.

The figures seem to indicate that the current wave, fueled by the more contagious Omicron variant, continues to ebb at an increasing pace. The rolling seven-day case count now stands at 38,509 – about 26 percent down from the previous seven-day period, during which authorities had reported 51,866 confirmed cases.

The death count also seems to be falling, with 338 deaths over the past seven days, compared to 345 over the previous week.

As of Friday, there were 43,520 active cases in the country, including 2,133 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 14,373. This amounts to, on average, 20 per day since the first case was detected 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 56.7 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.

Authorities say that some 2.21 million Croatians have been fully immunized against the disease, which they claim translates to around 65 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.

Positive results detected via rapid antigen testing, including at-home tests, are reported and tracked via a separate registry which is sometimes leaked to the local media who sometimes conflate these figures and report higher figures, without any sourcing.