In the past 24 hours, Slovenia did not have any fatalities as a consequence of COVID-19, however, it logged 116 new infections, which is the highest daily number of new cases since the beginning of summer.

Of the 1,686 PCR tests conducted in the past 24 hours, 6.9% were positive, the government tweeted on Friday.

This is the highest daily number of cases since 15 June, when there were 117 new cases. Compared to the situation last week, the number of new cases has doubled and the share of positive cases has almost doubled.

Currently, there are an estimated 970 active cases of infection in the country. The seven-day average of identified daily infections has increased to 78 while the 14-day incidence per 100,000 population is 46, according to the country’s health ministry.

There are 30 hospitalised COVID patients and 9 of them are in intensive care.

Slovenia has fully inoculated 38.1% of its population.

The government has said that to date 1,583,012 doses of vaccines against COVID-19 have been administered.