In the period from 1215 hours Saturday to 0745 hours Sunday, 262 persons in Croatia were diagnosed with the coronavirus infection, and one more COVID patient died, the national COVID-19 crisis response team stated on Sunday morning.

The country's COVID tally shows that since the outbreak of the infection, there have been 10,123 cases.

Of them, 2,727 are still active, of whom 229 are being treated in hospitals, including 13 patients on ventilators.

So far, 184 persons have succumbed to the infection, and 7,212 have fully recovered.

Since 25 February when Croatia registered its first COVID case, 166,638 tests have been performed for this infectious disease.

Currently, 8,879 people are self-isolating.

As of this Sunday, the national COVID-19 management team starts issuing press releases on the daily new coronavirus infection cases every day at 10 am. Until now, press releases on COVID-19 numbers have been issued at 2 pm every day since the onset of the coronavirus outbreak.