Covid-19 mortality higher in second wave

Ljubljana, 21 November - More than eight months after the first Covid-19 fatality was recorded in Slovenia on 14 March, the number of deaths exceeded 1,000 on Saturday. While a total of 108 people died of coronavirus in the first wave, the figures have been much higher the second time round, with more than 600 people dying in November alone.

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Staff seeing to a coronavirus patient at an intensive care unit of a hospital in Wuhan.
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