There have been 1,924 new cases of the coronavirus infection and 41 related deaths in Slovenia in the last 24 hours, the government said on Thursday.

The number of new infections is slightly lower than on the previous day, when there were more than 2,200 new cases but the percentage of positive tests is higher, 28.45%.

The number of infections since the start of the epidemic has climbed to 50,864, of which 20,151 are active cases. The 14-day incidence has dropped slightly to 961 infections per 100,000 inhabitans, but the number of patients who need hospitalisation and those in intensive care units keeps growing.

A total of 1,210 people are hospitalised, 31 more than on Wednesday, including 197 in intensive care wards.

With the latest fatalities, the death toll has risen to 686.