More than 430 people have died due to complications of COVID-19 in Croatia in the last six weeks, compared to 74 in the same period in 2021, according to a report in the Jutarnji List («Morning») newspaper yesterday, Tuesday.
With 438 deaths between the beginning of July and the 15th of August, the mortality rate of infection caused by the new coronavirus is 5.9 times higher than last year, the newspaper stressed.
The report also noted that 621 patients are currently hospitalized, 25 intubated, while last year these numbers were 198 and 21.
In addition, the number of so-called active cases was 8,340 on Monday, up from 1,903 last year. The newspaper notes that, for the first time since the pandemic broke out in the Balkan country, a summer wave is being recorded, attributed to the more infectious BA.5 sub variant of Omicron.
Partly, the increase is attributed to the massive influx of tourists, as last year restrictive measures were still in place to prevent the spread of SARS-CoV-2.
According to immunologist Zlatko Tromboniacza, Croatia currently has the eighth highest COVID-19 mortality rate per million inhabitants in the world.
As of the day before yesterday, the death toll from the pandemic had reached 16,508 in Croatia, compared to 8,282 last year. In other words, 8 225 lives were lost in one year, a figure roughly equal to that recorded in the first year and a half of the health crisis, always according to the publication.
