STA, 1 September 2020 - After a drop in new daily coronavirus cases attributed to reduced testing at the weekend, Slovenia recorded 41 infections from 1,415 tests performed on Monday, fresh government data show.
With the latest cases, the overall case count has inched nearer to the 3,000 mark, and currently stands 2,924, out of which 468 remain active cases, according to the tracker site covid-19.sledilnik.org.
Hospitalisations remain stable at 25 after three Covid-19 patients were discharged yesterday. Two remain in intensive care, that is one fewer than the day before.
Addressing reporters at a coronavirus briefing, government spokesman Jelko Kacin said that five of the latest cases had been imported, one each from Croatia, Russia and Austria, and two from Bosnia.
Almost half of the cases, 16, are local transmissions, while the origin of 13 cases is unknown and seven more cases are still being looked at by epidemiologists.
Kacin said data were showing Slovenia successfully contained infection imports from abroad.
Nearly half of latest cases were in the middle age group with ten infections among among 35-44-year-olds and nine among those aged 45 to 54.
Regional-wise, five of the infections were recorded in Ljubljana, which now has 91 active cases, and four in Rogaška Slatina in the east, with further cases in 25 more municipalities country-wide.
No new fatalities have been reported since 24 August, leaving the national death toll from Covid-19 at 133.
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