A total of 861,872 people in Slovenia, or 50 percent of the adult population, have been inoculated with at least one dose of vaccine against COVID-19, while 43.9 percent have received all the necessary doses, the National Public Health Institute said on Monday.

Of the total population, 41 percent of people have been vaccinated with one dose and 36.4 percent with all the necessary doses.

Slovenia has so far administered 557,568 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, 166,177 doses of AstraZeneca, slightly over 90,000 doses of Moderna and 58,000 of Johnson&Johnson.

Since the government failed in its efforts to vaccinate 60 percent of the population by the beginning of the summer, it continues the campaign to inoculate as many people as possible by the autumn to avoid the danger of a new wave of the infection that might be triggered by new variants of the coronavirus.

Prime Minister Janez Jansa has said that testing for coronavirus will no longer be free of charge as of mid-August, encouraging people who are hesitant about getting vaccinated to do so.

The government said on Monday that nine new coronavirus cases had been registered in the last 24 hours and that 30 infected people were now receiving hospital treatment, including 10 placed on ventilators. The test positivity rate was 1.5 percent.