In the last 24 hours, 5,735 persons have been tested for coronavirus in Croatia, and of them 776 have turned out to be positive, that is 13.5%, the national coronavirus crisis management team stated on Thursday morning.

In the last 24 hours, there have been 27 deaths linked to COVID-19, and Croatia's death toll stands now at 4,738.

Also, there are now 3,506 active cases in the country, and of them, 1,562 are receiving hospital treatment, including 136 patients placed on ventilators.

Since the outbreak of the infection in Croatia on 25 February, nearly 1.14 million tests have been conducted for this novel virus, and 227,326 people have tested positive.

Of them, 219,082 have recovered to date, including 724 recoveries in the last 24 hours.

Currently, 15,702 persons are self-isolating.