ZAGREB, March 7, 2020 – A total of 12 Croatians have tested positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus to date. Health Minister Vili Beroš told a news conference in Zagreb on Wednesday March 5, 2020 that there was no need to declare a state of emergency.
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Addressing the news conference, the head of the Fran Mihaljević hospital for infectious diseases, Alemka Markotić, said that all the patients were doing well and most of them no longer had any symptoms of the disease.
The patients are being treated in hospitals in Zagreb, Rijeka and Varaždin.
Asked if the number of infected persons could actually be higher, Dr Markotić said that with each infectious disease there can be a certain number of people who get over it without any apparent symptom of the illness.
“We call it asymptomatic infection, and there can be such cases with this disease. Such people generally pose no risk to other people. However, it remains to be seen if there are any inapparent infections with this novel disease,” she added.
Minister Beroš explained that there had been no need so far to declare a state of emergency since the national civil protection authority had responded rapidly and adequately.
The epidemiological situation in Croatia is relatively calm, and in Europe, Croatia’s model of response to the virus outbreak is being followed, he added.
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