Coronavirus: Omicron now dominant variant of coronavirus in Slovenia

Most cases are local transmission and some were imported from Belgrade, where a group of 900 young Slovenians attended New Year's Eve parties and 200 of them have been diagnosed with COVID-19, most of them with the Omicron variant, Nuska Caks-Jager of the Institute of Public Health told a news conference in Ljubljana on Friday.

The national laboratory of public health reported on Friday that the share of Omicron in positive cases was 63% in the last 24 hours.

Slovenian television stated that this variant had broken into the hospital in Jesenice, where 11 staff and as many patients were diagnosed with the Omicron infection.