STA, 27 May 2020 - Slovenians have given the government's efforts to fight the coronavirus a generally positive mark, a poll carried out by market research agency Mediana showed on Wednesday. Over 43% are satisfied with the government's measures designed to fight the virus and their relaxation, whereas almost 34% are unsatisfied with them.
Of these, 15.5% are completely satisfied and 15% completely unsatisfied with the measures, respectively, which Mediana interprets as the measures being received quite well.
Slovenians are also somewhat split on how the government communicated the adopted restrictive measures and their subsequent relaxation to the public.
As many as 42% of those polled consider the communication either poor or slightly better than poor, and 43% see it as good or very good.
The respondents were also asked to agree or disagree with several claims about the government's tackling of the epidemic and its ability to address global challenges.
Almost 50% do not trust the government will take the right decisions for Slovenia, as opposed to almost 35% who trust it on this.
Conversely, as many as 53% trust it that it will be able to address future global challenges, while 32% do not, which Mediana says shows a rather pessimistic outlook.
Over 50% meanwhile agree with a claim that Slovenia has addressed the epidemic better than other countries, but almost 23% hold the opposite view.
Medians believes the last two figures give the government an overall positive mark about its action during the epidemic.
The agency said that as many as 39% of Serbians and 26% of Croats said their respective governments tackled the coronavirus crisis worse than other countries.
The survey was carried out online on 15 and 16 May polling 505 Slovenians residents aged 15 to 75.
Two new coronavirus infections on Tuesday, no deaths
STA, 27 May 2020 - A total of 809 tests for coronavirus were conducted in Slovenia on Tuesday, with two tests coming back positive which is the highest daily case count after two weeks of zero or one infections per day. No Covid-19 deaths were recorded, with the national death toll remaining at 108, show the latest government data.
Eight Covid-19 patients were in hospital yesterday, the same as on Monday, including two in intensive care. Two people were meanwhile discharged from hospital.
So far, 1,471 coronavirus infections have been recorded in Slovenia and 76,579 tests have been performed.
A total of 290 Covid-19 patients have been released from hospital until Tuesday.
