Over 2,600 coronavirus cases, ten deaths reported for Wednesday

Ljubljana, 28 October - Another 2,631 people tested positive for coronavirus in Slovenia on Wednesday, an increase of more than 40% from the week before, as hospitalisations rose further above 500 and ten more Covid patients died, official figures show.

Ljubljana Mario Fafangel, the chief epidemiologist with the National Institute of Public Health (NIJZ), comments on the worsening Covid outbreak in the country. Photo: Nace Hočevar/STA

Ljubljana
Mario Fafangel, the chief epidemiologist with the National Institute of Public Health (NIJZ), comments on the worsening Covid outbreak in the country.
Photo: Nace Hočevar/STA

Maribor Scenes from UKC Maribor's ward which treats Covid-19 patients. Photo: UKC Maribor File photo

Maribor
Scenes from UKC Maribor's ward which treats Covid-19 patients.
Photo: UKC Maribor
File photo

The rest of this news item is available to subscribers.
The news item consists of 1.848 characters (without spaces) or 375 words words.

Buy the news item. Price: 2 tokens; on account: 0 tokens.

ep/sm/sm
© STA, 2021