Over the past 24 hours 1,328 tests have been done in Slovenia, with 37 turning out positive for coronavirus, five fewer than the day before, and there has been no fatality, the government tweeted on Saturday.

Twenty-three persons are hospitalised for COVID-19, two more than on Friday. Two patients are in intensive care and one patient was discharged on Friday.

Since the start of the epidemic, Slovenia has reported 2,834 cases of coronavirus, 433 are currently active, and the death toll is 133.

Most of the new cases in the last 24 hours have been confirmed in Ljubljana, nine, said the Health Ministry.