In the last 24 hours, Slovenia has conducted 3,563 coronavirus tests and 920 of them have been positive, the government said on Sunday.

Currently, there are 19,381 active cases, and the incidence rate per 100,000 inhabitants over a 14-day period is now 925 new cases.

The situation in hospitals is still critical, where 1,261 COVID patients are being treated, including 201 in intensive care wards.

In the last 24 hours, 32 COVID-related deaths have been reported, and the death toll stands now at 797.

Government officials were quoted as saying that the latest restrictions have led to the prevention of the exponential growth of the infection.

“We have flattened the curve of coronavirus spread,” the chief epidemiologist Mateja Logar said.