A total of 760 people have been tested for the coronavirus in Slovenia in the past 24 hours and 34 tests have returned positive, but there have been no new fatalities, the Slovenian government said on Twitter on Sunday.

The number of people infected with the virus since the start of the epidemic has thus climbed to 2,651. So far, 131 people have died, and there are 402 active cases.

Seventeen patients are currently hospitalised, and none of them is in intensive care.

The Slovenian public health institute has said that in the period from June 1 to August 21, 300 cases of the infection were imported into the country, and of that number, 165 are people who stayed in Croatia, mostly in the last two weeks, the Delo daily has reported.

The daily noted that most of those cases were young people who had contracted the disease at parties and in nightclubs on the Adriatic coast.

Slovenian authorities on Thursday put Croatia on their red list of epidemiologically unsafe countries, calling on Slovenians vacationing in Croatia to return if they want to avoid obligatory 14-day quarantine.

The deadline for that expires at midnight on Monday but the authorities have called on travellers to do so as soon as possible to avoid possible congestion on roads or at the border considering that a large number of Slovenians are still in Croatia.