Surge in coronavirus amid scaled-up testing
6. January, 2021
Ljubljana – As many as 2,501 people tested positive for coronavirus in Slovenia on Monday, the second highest daily increase to date, as almost 23,500 PCR and antigen tests were performed, the largest number yet, following scaled-down testing over the extended holiday weekend. Another 30 patients with Covid-19 lost their lives, government data show.
Of the 5,966 PRC tests performed yesterday, 1,680 or 28% came back positive, while 821 infections were detected from 17,531 rapid antigen tests, for a positivity rate of 4.7%, show data presented by Jelko Kacin, the government’s coronavirus spokesman.
The surge comes after a drop in cases over the extended holiday weekend when testing is as a rule scaled down. Yesterday, rapid testing became available at community health centres and many companies had their staff tested as did schools for children with special needs before reopening for in-person teaching today.
3:09 AM MYT LJUBLJANA, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) Slovenia on Wednesday registered a record daily number of 3,354 COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of coronavirus cases to 131,787 in the country, according to the National Institute of Public Health. On Tuesday, a combined total of 22,194 PCR (polymerase chain reaction) and rapid antigen tests were performed in the country. Of the 6,956 PCR tests performed, 2,602 came back positive. That resulted in a positivity rate of 37.4 percent. The positivity rate for the 15,238 rapid antigen tests exceeded 4.9 percent. Thirty-one new deaths took the toll to 2,899. The national COVID-19 tracker site Sledilnik shows that there are currently 21,781 active cases in Slovenia. A total of 1,177 patients are in hospital for COVID-19, 183 of them in intensive care.
Persons helping Croatia post-quake not subjected to Covid-19 protocols
31. December, 2020
Ljubljana – Slovenian residents travelling to Croatia to help in the disaster relief efforts in Croatia following Tuesday’s devastating earthquake in the Petrinja area and staying there up to 48 hours will be allowed to re-enter Slovenia without quarantining or producing a negative test for the novel coronavirus.
At the coronavirus press briefing on Wednesday, government spokesman Jelko Kacin said that the Interior Ministry had added this exception to the list of seven exceptions for entry to Slovenia without quarantine at home or negative test.
Civil Protection commander Srečko Šestan noted that the exception applied only to persons who were part of organised relief efforts and not to individual visits to the area south-east of Zagreb affected by the 6.4-magnitude quake.
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Slovenian citizens travelling to Croatia to help in the disaster relief efforts there following yesterday s deadly earthquake and staying there up to 48 hours will be allowed to re-enter Slovenia without quarantining.
They will also not be subjected to producing a negative test for the new coronavirus at the border.
According to the government spokesman Jelko Kacin, this exception had been added to the list of seven exceptions for entry to Slovenia.
However, Civil Protection commander Srečko Šestan pointed out that the exception applies only to those part of organised relief efforts and not to individual visits to the affected area south-east of Croatia s capital Zagreb, the STA reports.
Slovenia Times
28. December, 2020
Ljubljana – Inspectors sealed on Saturday the Krvavec ski centre, which remained open despite a ban on ski lift operations and a fine it received on Friday. First, the gondola taking skiers to the ski slopes was sealed and than other lifts, RTC Krvavec told the STA. The skiers who were already skiing were enabled a safe return to the valley.
The inspection procedure is still under way and the RTC Krvavec, which said this morning the centre would continue to operate despite the ban until the end of the year, could not say what its future steps would be.