Slovenia's government said on Thursday that they would speed up the rate of inoculating its 2 million population with the arrival of new vaccine shipments, and that the army would be involved in ramping up the rollout plan, "until the improvement of the situation in the country's hospitals."

After 3,937 PCR tests were conducted in the past 24 hours, 918 new cases of the coronavirus infection were identified or 23.3 percent which is worse than seven days ago when the rate of positive cases was 17.5 percent. In the past 24 hours six people died as a consequence of the infection.

There are currently 636 hospitalized Covid patients, or 15 more than on Wednesday when 80 new patients were admitted for hospital treatment. Currently there are 157 patients in intensive care.

The death toll in Slovenia has increased to 4,243 while the seven-day incidence rate is still high at 210.5 per 100,000 population.

According to official data, to date 413,033 people have been vaccinated with the first dose of a vaccine while 180,084 people have received both shots.

The Janez Jansa government aims to vaccinate the majority of the population by the end of June.