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From today, Slovenia is under an 11-day circuit breaker lockdown prompted by the increase in the country’s coronavirus transmission rates. As reported by STA newswire, the government adopted the measures last Sunday after the Covid-19 advisory team presented their proposal to a cross-party meeting at Brdo Castle, which was boycotted by the centre-left opposition.
The lockdown is needed to help hospitals cope with an expected influx in Covid-19 patients and also to give enough time to vaccinate the most at-risk groups of the population, Prime Minister Janez Janša explained. He promised that on 12 April the phased easing of restrictions would recommence if the case numbers remained at roughly the current level and unless a new, more aggressive variant emerged.
Describing the situation as a race against time, Janša cautioned that the success of suppressing the coronavirus spread would depend on measures being consistently implemented, because the experience of other countries had shown partial measures were not very productive. The Prime Minister said not taking action now would translate into at least 500 additional deaths until June.
So, the list of restrictions in place in Slovenia includes:
It is informative to see what the epidemic situation was in Slovenia prior to lockdown. Last Saturday, according to the National Institute of Public Health data, the 7-day average of new daily cases rose to 944 after standing at 808 a week ago. 499 Covid-19 patients were hospitalized, and 105 were in intensive care units - a far more optimistic picture compared to what most EU member states were experiencing.
Slovenia has reported 212,679 coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic with an estimated 12,311 still active infections, and 4,300 fatalities. A total of 229,553 people have received their first shot of a Covid vaccine and 112,087 have received full two doses.
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