Slovenia's government will allow recreational outdoor and indoor sports activities this week, albeit with a maximum 10 people in attendance. They will also have to keep a two-meter physical distance from one another and get tested for coronavirus at least once a week.

Indoor tennis and badminton, fitness center workouts, swimming in indoor pools, ice skating, and team training, as well as skiing courses will reopen.

Training sessions for contact sports is still not allowed, and athletes and skiers are advised to wear face masks and participate in sporting activities only if they are completely healthy.

Slovenia’s government said it had secured a sufficient number of tests to test all groups that have to be tested in order for these activities to resume, including shop assistants, school employees, and athletes.

On Monday alone, more than 42,000 tests were processed by health authorities, including 37,830 antigen tests – with 750 positives.

Five people have died as a result of coronavirus infection over the last 24 hours, the lowest number of fatalities in a single day in the second wave of the epidemic.

The number of active cases has dropped to 12,102 and and the number of hospitalizations to 691, which, along with currently positive projections of future trends, will hopefully enable new easing of coronavirus restrictions in the first half of March.