Slovenia's Nika Križnar, Špela Rogelj, Urša Bogataj and Ema Klinec won silver at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf, Germany, on Friday, missing gold by just 1.4 points. This is first medal for Slovenia's women's ski-jumping team at a world championship.

The first case of the South African variant of the novel coronavirus was confirmed in Slovenia on Friday, Health Minister Janez Poklukar told the press. The person from the area of Maribor in the north-east of the country has recently returned from Africa and was vaccinated against the coronavirus before travelling there.

Prime Minister Janez Janša has written to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen with an invitation for the Commission to appoint a fact-finding mission that would visit Slovenia to get acquainted with the state of democracy, rule of law, independence of the judiciary and media plurality.

Slovenia's GDP dropped 5.5% in real terms in 2020 over the year before, the Statistics Office said on Friday. Domestic spending saw a considerable drop, while external demand also suffered a blow. Data for the final quarter of last year show a year-on-year drop of 4.5%.

912 people tested positive for the novel coronavirus on Thursday in 4,484 PCR tests, the government said on Friday. The positivity ratio was at 20.3%. 14 Covid-19 patients died. The seven-day incidence average was at 764, an increase of 1, according to data from the National Institute of Public Health (NIJZ).

Slovenia recorded an annual deflation of 1% in February as prices of goods were down 1.3% compared to the same month in 2020 and prices of services dropped by 0.5%. Significantly cheaper petroleum products contributed the most to the annual deflation