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Covid-19: Croatia, 'infection growth due to tourist crowd.'

Interior Minister, 'we do not rule out tourist war.'

13 August, 19:32
(ANSA) - ZAGREB, 13 AGO - The leap in new coronavirus infections in recent days in Croatia must also be interpreted taking into account that the country currently has between 20 and 25% more people staying there than the other months of the year, given that to date there are about 830,000 tourists on the Croatian Adriatic coast." That is what Croatian Interior Minister, Davor Bozinovic, head of the Civil Protection crisis, said in an interview on public TV HTV. Yesterday Croatia recorded 130 new infections, a number which comes second after that of July 11, when those who tested positive to Covid-19 had been 140, whereas on average between June and July there had been between 30 and 60 new infections The minister did not rule out the hypothesis that some information, circulated in the foreign press, of infected tourists returning from holidays in Croatia may be the result of the efforts of some other countries to grab the most significant number of tourists, "Of course, everyone is also fighting to keep their compatriots in their respective countries, to ensure that they don't spend their money abroad," Bozinovic remarked. "Croatia - he added - has implemented measures to attract a good part of the loyal visitors to our coast this summer." According to the minister, the epidemiological authorities have received some official notifications from other countries of people infected during the holidays in Croatia, but much less than what the foreign press reported. "There have been cases in which Croatia, following media reports of infected people, contacted the authorities in the tourists' countries of origin, and so far, there has never been any official confirmation," added Bozinovic. Although the interview did not mention any specific country, most of the reports of infections imported by vacationers returning from Croatia concern Italy, Slovenia, and Austria. (ANSA).

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