Germany puts all of Croatia on red travel list

ZAGREB, Oct 30 (Hina) – The whole of Croatia is on Germany’s list of coronavirus risk zones, after the government in Berlin adopted the latest recommendations made by the Robert Koch Institute on Friday.

The travellers coming from coronavirus risk zones are supposed to self-isolate for 14 days upon their arrival in Germany or they can undergo testing.

Apart from Croatia, also the whole territories of Slovenia, Hungary, Cyprus and Bulgaria are on this list as of Friday.

In the last 24 hours, of 9,287 tests performed for coronavirus in Croatia, 30% of them, that is 2,772, have returned positive, the country’s COVID-19 crisis management team stated on Friday.

Friday was the second consecutive day with more than 2,700 cases after on Thursday the daily tally of the new cases was 2,776.

In the last 24 hours, 20 COVID patients have died, bringing the death toll to 531.

There are now 15,106 active cases, including 1,027 patients who are receiving hospital treatment, and of them 74 are placed on ventilators.

Since February 25, when the first case was confirmed in the country, 46,547 people have tested positive for the novel virus and of them 30,910 have recovered.

Currently, 29,098 people are self-isolating.

Since the onset of the epidemic, Croatia has conducted 485,281 tests.