The epidemiological situation is such that we must introduce COVID certificates in the health system, he said at the weekly press briefing of the national COVID-19 crisis management team.
Patients and sick people will not have to have COVID certificates so that access to healthcare is not restricted.
“We wish to reduce the possibility of infection in a health institution. We must ensure healthcare for everyone, and only half the adult population have been vaccinated,” Beroš said.
The COVID certificate requirement is being considered for other sectors too, notably social care, but the decision will be made by experts, he added.
Medical workers without a certificate will have to be tested once a week, at first free of charge and later at their expense.
Beroš said that as of next week reporting on the COVID situation in Croatia would focus on the percentage of vaccinated and unvaccinated hospitalised patients.
He said Croatia was “totally unnecessarily” on the red COVID list as of yesterday. “The way out is in increasing the number of those vaccinated.”
He said that Denmark, for example thanks to its high vaccination rate, was lifting all restrictions today.
Croatian Institute of Public Health director Krunoslav Capak said infections had been rising considerably week on week since late August. He added that incidence was lowest in Istria County and highest in Split-Dalmatia County.
Capak also said that census takers would not have to have COVID certificates but would have to comply with COVID rules when the population census begins later this month.
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