STA, 26 October 2020 - Despite slowed down testing on Sunday, Slovenia registered 1,116 new coronavirus cases as over 30% of the tests returned positive results, the highest rate yet. The country reported seven more Covid-related deaths in hospitals.
Presenting fresh data at Monday's press briefing, government spokesman Jelko Kacin said the number of patients hospitalised with Covid-19 has risen to 523, from 508 the day before.
The number of those in intensive care units rose by 11 to 82.
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The latest infections bring the national coronavirus case count to over 24,000, of which 15,247 are active cases, according updated data on the tracker site covid-19.sledilnik.org.
The Covid-related death toll has increased to 251.
The rolling 14-day average of cases per 100,000 residents is now 727, according to the tracker site, which shows 1,130 new cases for Sunday, after Kacin previously reported 1,116.
A total of 3,682 tests were performed on Sunday, which compares to 5,776 on Saturday and 7,025 on Friday, when daily case tallies hit 1,675 and 1,961, respectively, the latter a record high.
Kacin said the situation was worst in the north-western region of Gorenjska, where 43% of all tests were positive. The region has 1,265 infections per 100,000 residents.
Ljubljana recorded 190 new cases on Sunday, where the rate of infection is now 0.705%. Higher rates are reported by the municipalities of Odranci (3.467%) and Kuzma (3.748%) in the north-east, and Železniki (2.657%) and Škofja Loka (2.042%) in the north-west.
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