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No new coronavirus infections, Covid-19 deaths also on Friday
LJUBLJANA - No new coronavirus infections or Covid-19 deaths were recorded on Friday after another 677 tests were conducted, in what was a second day in a row without new infections or deaths, government data released on Saturday show. A total of 19 Covid-19 patients were still in hospital yesterday, four of them in intensive care. Two patients were discharged from hospital. The number of tests conducted so far stands at 74,419, while the number of persons who tested positive for Covid-19 has remained at 1,468. A total of 280 patients have so far been discharged from hospital. he death toll remains at 106.
Efforts to keep public life going during second Covid-19 wave key, says expert
LJUBLJANA - A potential second wave of coronavirus infections could occur in autumn or winter, but it is not very likely in summer, Bojana Beović, the head of the Health Ministry advisory task force for coronavirus, has told the STA. All efforts should be directed at preventing another nation-wide lockdown if the second wave occurs, she said. The country will most likely be spared the second wave in summer months "given the current epidemiologic status and the fact that people hang out outdoors in summer and there is no school", the infectious diseases expert said.
SMC president believes parliament threshold not unreachable
LJUBLJANA - Although the party is well below the parliament threshold in recent surveys, coalition Modern Centre Party (SMC) president Zdravko Počivalšek believes that the threshold is reachable even if elections were held now. In an interview for the newspaper Delo on Saturday, which comes after another SMC deputy left the party, Počivalšek also said he did not know exactly how many deputies of the party had received offers to defect. He thinks that the coalition is still solid, but that it needs to be smart not to go into unnecessary politicisation. As for public finances, Počivalšek admitted that the revenue was lower than planned, so the state will borrow additional money and invest it in kick-starting the economy.
Čeferin hopes fans to return to stadiums in autumn, not interested in politics
LJUBLJANA - Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) president Aleksander Čeferin told the newspaper Dnevnik that, hopefully, football with fans in the stands could return by the autumn. In the interview, the Slovenian lawyer praised the decision to resume the German football championship, as this is a good sign. He was also questioned about the situation in Slovenia, denying speculations that he is interested in a political post in the country. Čeferin believes that Slovenia has great potential, but is currently facing the greatest deal of division since gaining independence. He sees the deteriorating culture of dialogue as a problem, and attacks on the judiciary as inadmissible.
Text improvement platform wins Startup of the Year Award
MARIBOR - Instatext, the company behind the eponymous web platform for text improvement, is the winner of this year's Startup of the Year Award conferred by the Slovenian Startup Ecosystem project on Friday. The platform which uses artificial intelligence to create instant recommendations and ideas about how to improve a text content-wise and make it more readable and understandable. It has platform has more than 3,000 users, and the Instatext comprises top experts in artificial intelligence, language technologies, natural language processing and software development, the organisers said.
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