STA, 31 August 2020 - Slovenia recorded 18 new coronavirus infections from 588 tests performed on Sunday, fresh data from the government show.
The latest figures bring the total national case count to 2,883, of which 454 remain active, according to the tracker site covid-19.sledilnik.org.
A total of 25 Covid-19 patients are currently in hospital, three of them requiring intensive treatment, that is one more than the day before.
No new fatalities have been reported, leaving the national death toll from Covid-19 at 133.
Eight of the latest cases were recorded in Ljubljana, which has now 89 active cases out of a total of 518 recorded since March.
Another four were in Sevnica in the east and two more in Domžale near Ljubljana. Four other municipalities saw one new case each.
Three of the cases confirmed in the past week were among staff at the Ljubljana Oncology Institute, the country's main cancer treatment hospital.
The institute said none of the infected staff had been working with the patients so services involving patients were running undisrupted. The staff in contact with the infected colleagues tested so far have returned negative results.
So has the Kranj maternity hospital confirmed that one of its employees tested positive for Sars-CoV-2 on Saturday, with the tests taken on her contacts coming back negative.
The employee caught the virus in a domestic setting. She has not shown any symptoms of the novel disease and had been wearing personal protective equipment while working with the patients.
The employee is in self isolation and her contacts have been quarantined.
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