Amnesty International says in its latest human rights report that Slovenia denied asylum-seekers access to asylum in 2020, while forcibly returning migrants to Croatia. The country is criticised for limiting freedom of assembly during the pandemic, handling Covid infections at care homes inadequately, and failing to resolve Roma issues.

Slovenia confirmed 1,189 new cases of coronavirus and three deaths on Tuesday. The case count was down a fifth over last Tuesday, but the number of PCR tests, at 4,812, was almost a third lower as well, the latest government data show. Nearly a quarter of all tests were positive.

Slovenia woke up to an unseasonably cold morning on Wednesday with temperatures dipping into the 20s below zero in the south of the country in what is the coldest April morning on record.

The Agency for Communication Networks and Services (AKOS) will launch today a long-awaited wireless spectrum auction, as part of which it is also offering frequency bands for 5G mobile networks.