Croatia's health authorities reported on Friday that 3,599 new cases of the coronavirus and 50 Covid-related deaths have been recorded in the country over the previous 24 hours.

The figures continue to fall from the peak of the most recent pandemic surge in January. The rolling seven-day case count now stands at 25,659 – about 34 percent down from the previous seven-day period which saw 38,509 confirmed cases.

However, daily death counts seems to remain almost unchanged. There were 356 deaths over the past seven days ending on Friday, compared to 338 the previous week, and 345 the week before that. As of Friday, there were 28,982 active cases in the country, including 1,837 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 14,729. This amounts to, on average, 20 deaths per day since the country’s first case was detected on February 25, 2020.

Meanwhile, the vaccination effort seems to have slowed down almost to a standstill. On Thursday, some 3,800 shots of Covid vaccine were administered, including just 560 first-time jabs.

Around 2.3 million Croatians have received at least one shot of any Covid-19 vaccine to date, which health authorities say translates to 56.8 percent of the country’s entire population.

Health authorities project that the current population is little under 4.1 million, even though the latest Census 2021 data released by the state’s bureau of statistics in January put the number at 3.9 million.

The total vaccination figure includes some 2.2 million Croatians who have been fully immunized against the disease, which authorities say translates to around 65 percent of all Croatians over the age of 18 – which implies that authorities calculate that the country has 3.4 million adults.

These daily figures come from official reports which only account for cases confirmed by PCR tests and which are reported daily to international organizations.

These do not include positive results from rapid antigen tests (RATs) which are reported and tracked via a separate registry and which local media sometimes conflate with official figures.