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Slovenian Covid-19 victims commemorated by senior officials
LJUBLJANA - Senior state and religious officials attended a memorial service at Žale cemetery for people who died from Covid-19, on the anniversary of the first death recorded in Slovenia. President Borut Pahor expressed condolences to the victim's families and said the virus had not been defeated yet. "Many people in these merciless times said goodbye in deep and painful solitude," he said. A willow tree was also planted there in memory of the Covid-19 victims, and it was blessed by the head of the Slovenian Bishops' Conference, Ljubljana Archbishop Stanislav Zore. The ceremony was attended by PM Janez Janša, Speaker Igor Zorčič, Evangelical Lutheran Church priest Geza Filo and Nevzet Porić of the Slovenian Islamic Community.
520 new infections confirmed, 7-day incidence increases
LJUBLJANA - A total of 520 new coronavirus infections were confirmed in Slovenia on Saturday in 2,984 PCR tests, with the 7-day incidence of new infections increased by 19 to 697, after dropping steadily over the week, fresh statistics published by the government on Twitter show. The positivity rate dropped by almost five percentage points to 17.4%. The number of hospitalisations was up by two to 438, with 83 requiring intensive care. Five Covid-19 patients died on Saturday.
Janša says SDS will not allow soloing in coalition any longer
LJUBLJANA - Democrats (SDS) president and PM Janez Janša has announced in a letter to the party membership that the party will work in realising the commitments from the coalition agreement, and he expects the same from partners. "Once a decision has been adopted, bringing it down or eroding it with help of opposition votes in the National Assembly is not acceptable. The SDS will not allow this any more," the letter says. He added that the majority of the opposition is destructive like nowhere in Europe, saying its acts in this time of great distress were hateful towards the homeland, nation and state.
France's Noel wins slalom event of 60th Vitranc Cup
KRANJSKA GORA - France's Clement Noel won the men's Alpine Ski World Cup event, while Austria's Marco Schwarz secured the overall win in the discipline by finishing seventh ahead of the season finale in Switzerland's Lenzerheide on 17-21 March. It was a double French win in the slalom event of the 60th Vitranc Cup, as Victor Muffat-Jeandet was second, while third place went to Ramon Zenhäusern of Switzerland, who won the event in Kranjska Gora two years ago. The only Slovenian in the final run was Štefan Hadalin, who finished 25th as he fell 3.88 seconds behind the winner. It was nevertheless the first slalom race in the season in which he finished in the top 30 to earn World Cup points.
Slovenian, Croatian football legends raise money for Petrinja
LJUBLJANA - Slovenian and Croatian football legends played a charity match on Saturday in the Croatian town of Petrinja to raise funds for the area that was hit by a devastating earthquake at the end of last year. The Croatian Red Cross was handed out a donation of EUR 50,000, the Slovenian Football Association (NZS) said. The match was played on initiative of Slovenia's Aleksander Čeferin, the president of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), and Davor Šuker, the head of the Croatian Football Federation. A EUR 5,000 donation was also handed out to the Mladost football club from Petrinja by the NZS.
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