STA, 15 November 2021 - Slovenia saw another 1,815 people test positive for coronavirus on Sunday as cases kept climbing week-on-week and over half of the PCR tests came back positive. Official figures also show hospitalisations passing the one thousand mark and another eleven Covid-19 patients loosing their lives.
Data from the Health Ministry shows a total of 1,008 patients were hospitalised with Covid-19 this morning, including 229 in intensive care units.
The figures are up by 165 and 39, respectively, on the same day a week ago.
Eleven patients died yesterday for a total death toll of 5,240.
According to the National Institute of Public Health, the 7-day average of new cases has increased by 76 from the day before to 3,224, and the 14-day incidence rate per 100,000 people is up by 27 to 2,030.
An estimated 42,807 people are currently infected in the country.
As many as 53% of the PCR tests performed yesterday returned positive.
Number of COVID beds rising to 1,200
STA, 15 November 2021 - Slovenian hospitals are increasing their bed capacities for Covid patients to around 1,200, of which 280 in intensive care units (ICU), as they are coping with an increasing number of Covid patients amid the fourth wave of the epidemic.
The expanded capacities will be available today or tomorrow, said Robert Carotta, the national coordinator for Covid beds at hospitals.
Ways of increasing the number of Covid beds will be discussed by hospital director and Health Ministry officials at a meeting scheduled for today.
A new Covid unit is being opened today at one of the hospitals within the system of UKC Ljubljana, the country's biggest hospital. 37 new beds will thus be available at Peter Držaj Hospital.
However, a shortage of staff is even a bigger problem as the country fights the epidemic, with all segments of the health system, healthcare and medical students, as well as the army and Red Cross helping out.
