Coronavirus & Slovenia, 21/08: 1 Death, 38 Cases; More Changes to Red, Green Lists

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STA, 21 August 2020 - Following a new four-month high of 43 cases on Wednesday, Thursday's coronavirus tests confirmed 38 new infections. One person died, which raises the death toll to 130.

There are currently 18 Covid-19 patients in hospital. Nobody needs intensive care and one patient was discharged from hospital on Thursday.

The largest number of cases, nine, was again confirmed in Ljubljana, while infections were discovered in 23 more municipalities.

There have been so far 2,574 confirmed Sars-CoV-2 infections, with 341 active at present, according to the national tracker covid-19.sledilnik.

The Hrastnik care home, the site of a major breakout in July, said that two more of its employees were confirmed to have contracted Sars-CoV-2 in recent days, which means it presently has 22 active infections among residents sand six among staff.

While dozens of positive cases have been recorded at the Hrastnik care home since 10 July, no infections have been detected outside of the care home in the town for three weeks.

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Nine countries added to red list, nine to yellow list

STA, 21 August 2020 - Slovenia has placed nine countries, including six from Europe, on the red list of countries where the risk of coronavirus is high and quarantine required for most travellers. Nine countries slipped from the new green list effective today.

Under a decision adopted by the government yesterday, nine European countries have lost the green status: Denmark, Greece, France, Ireland, Iceland, Monaco, the Netherlands, Poland, and some regions of Spain that had previously been green.

At the same time, ten countries were added to the red list: Croatia, Lebanon, Libya, Malta, Monaco, Morocco, the Netherlands, Ukraine and Venezuela.

If a person regardless of their citizenship enters Slovenia coming from one of the countries on the red list, they are put in a mandatory 14-day quarantine. Exemptions apply in a limited number of cases.

Even though Croatia is on the red list as of today, Slovenian holidaymakers will be able to return without being ordered to quarantine until the end of the day on Monday, a move aiming to reduce tailbacks at border crossings.

However, Health Ministry State Secretary Tina Bregant called on all those returning to self-isolate even though they will not have a formal decision to go into quarantine.

While in the past weeks coronavirus cases returning from Croatia were mostly youngsters who got infected at parties, Bregant said today that infections are now being confirmed also in people who kept to themselves while on vacation.

In a red-listed country a visit to the grocery store where somebody had not been wearing a mask could be enough to be infected, she said. "Croatia is now objectively in the red. It is objectively dangerous there now."

Health Minister Tomaž Gantar said he believes the number of daily confirmed cases will increase in the coming weeks, as thousands of Slovenians return from Croatia.

Bulgaria was removed from the red list and now falls in the middle, yellow category on Slovenia's traffic-light classification, which includes all countries that are neither on the green or the red list.

There is a quarantine requirement for travellers from countries on the yellow list, but there are many exemptions.

Following the latest change, the green list includes 19 countries seen as being less dangerous. Almost all are in Europe. The red list now spans almost 70 countries.

There are no coronavirus-related restrictions for travellers from countries that are on the green list.