STA, 19 November 2020 - The government has extended by seven days the closure of shops selling non-essential goods and the ban on cultural events, its Covid-19 spokesman Jelko Kacin said on Thursday. It will decide whether to extend other measures, such as the night curfew or the movement between municipalities, at a correspondence session on Friday.
The seven-day extension also applies to driving school lessons.
The exceptions to the shop ban are groceries, shops selling personal care and cleaning products or farm produce, pharmacies, petrol stations, banks and insurers, post offices, car repair shops as well as delivery services.
Clothing, shoe and tech stores are not listed among the exceptions and even grocery stores are not allowed to sell technical goods, clothes or shoes.
The government also decided that multi-apartment buildings have to provide hand sanitiser at the entrance for another 14 days.
It suspended the deadlines in court procedures, Kacin explained. The decision is based on the law on courts, which says the deadlines are suspended if courts cannot work due to an emergency. The suspension can last up to three months.
On 16 November, all courts in Slovenia switched to lockdown mode until further notice to help fight the coronavirus.
This means court hearings are held only in some half a dozen urgent matters, whereas all the others have been cancelled, except if held via video call.
