First day of first stage of relaxed measures goes smoothly

In the last 24 hours, there have been nine new infections with the novel coronavirus in Croatia, bringing the total number to 2,039, whereas the death toll has risen by four to 59, Croatia's COVID-29 crisis management team said at a daily news conference on Monday.

As for the latest fatalities, those were four elderly women, born in 1937, 1934, 1923 and in 1931, and they had had underlying health conditions, according to information provided by Health Minister Vili Beros.

There are currently 21 COVID-19 patients on ventilators.

Since the outbreak of the disease in late February, Croatia has tested 32,817 samples, and of them 1,195 samples have been tested in the also 24 hours. Also, the percentage of positive tests stands at 6.23%.

Currently 303 people are being treated in hospitals due to this disease, 11 fewer than on Sunday, and also 517 patients have been discharged after the recovery, nine more than on Sunday. The number of those who have recovered at home has increased by 54 to 649.

Since the outbreak of the disease, a total of 1,166 people who have caught the virus have recovered.

The average age of the patients in Croatia is 51.24 Also, 53.8% of patients have been women, and 46.2% men. 

Bozinovic: Civil Protection Authority not place to send political messages

The National Civil Protection Authority is not the place to send political messages,  Interior Minister Davor Bozinovic, who is at the helm of that authority, said on Monday.

"Politicking can only occur through questions. Politicking is being incited by someone who thinks they will benefit from it after two months' of the successful work of this crisis management team," Bozinovic told a regular press conference.

"For two months now we have been informing of the situation regarding the virus that has infected the entire world. We are providing very precise information about how to behave and organise life. We are adopting measures aimed at fulfilling the first demand and that is to protect health and lives," he said.

Now, we are in a phase of relaxing measures and the National Civil Protection Authority has a delicate role with regard to monitoring the effects of the eased restrictions on the health situation. Those measures have only just started and naturally we will monitor them in the next day of so and see how the situation develops, with the aim of not returning to the restrictive measures we had and so we can head toward normalising life,"  added Bozinovic.

Text: Hina

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