In the last 24 hours, 2,025 people in Slovenia have tested positive for coronavirus, and 29 COVID-19 patients have died, government spokesman Jelko Kacin said at a news conference in Ljubljana on Wednesday.

Kacin said that although the daily number of new cases was still high, the second wave of the epidemic was likely to ebb in the long term, since the reproduction number, or R-value, for COVID-19 was going down.

Three days ago it was 1.21, the day after that it was 1.17, and today it is 1.14, and it will go below one in the coming days, the spokesman said.

He also said that the admission of new COVID patients to hospitals was no longer rising as steeply as in previous weeks.

Since the outbreak of the infection, 39,408 people in Slovenia have caught the novel virus, and currently, 23,417 cases are active.

There are 979 patients being treated in hospitals for this infection, including 158 in intensive care wards.

The death toll stands at 441.