Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa said on Wednesday that Slovenia could soon start issuing digital COVID-19 certificates to facilitate the cross-border travel of its citizens in the EU.

Unlike Croatia, Slovenia was not involved in the EU’s pilot project for digital COVID-19 certificates, and will therefore continue to use certificates about vaccination or recovery from COVID-19 issued by local health clinics.

“Slovenia, too, will soon start issuing digital certificates to enable free movement across the border for people who have been tested, vaccinated or  who have recovered from COVID-19,” said Jansa, who met in Ljubljana with Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto.

Szijjarto arrived in Slovenia with 300,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to help step up the process of vaccination in the country. The vaccines are a loan to be returned to Hungary in the autumn.

“As of today, there is no queuing for vaccination in Slovenia, anyone wishing to move freely can get vaccinated,” said Jansa.

The Hungarian government last year helped Slovenia by delivering medical and protective equipment following the breakout of the coronavirus pandemic.

Jelko Kacin, the government official in charge of the vaccination process, said on Wednesday that Croatia had decided to allow Slovenians vaccinated with one dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine to enter the country if they did so at least three weeks from vaccination.

Those people can stay in Croatia until vaccination with the third dose, which they expect to receive in the autumn.

In the last 24 hours, 374 cases of coronavirus infection and four fatalities have been reported in Slovenia, with the percentage of positive tests standing at 9%.

There are 3,960 active cases, the seven-day daily incidence is 276, and 214 patients are hospitalised, including 63 in intensive care wards. 31.8% of the population has been immunised with one vaccine shot.

Epidemiological restrictions in force will be additionally relaxed in seven days at the earliest, and some of the restrictions will have to stay in force over the summer, local media say, noting that the basic reproduction number of the infection is currently too high and its incidence higher than in neighbouring countries in relation to the total population.

An additional problem for the government is the fact that the Constitutional Court on Wednesday published a ruling which notes that some of the epidemiological restrictions, which were lifted in the meantime, had been unconstitutional.