Slovenia's death toll from Covid-19 has increased to 119 after one more patient died on Thursday as 17 new infections were confirmed from 917 tests, down from 24 the day before, fresh government statistics show.

Slovenia's annual inflation rate ran at 0.3% in July despite a 0.1% dip of consumer prices in a month-on-month comparison due to clearance sales at clothes and footwear shops, data from the Statistics Office show.

The Slovenian state budget recorded a EUR 1.92 billion deficit in the first six months of the year, mostly on the account of a considerable drop in revenue related to a lower tax yield as the government introduced restrictive anti-epidemic measures, the Finance Ministry said on Friday.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is to visit Prague, Vienna, Ljubljana and Poland in mid-August, according to a report by the Czech news web portal Lidovky.cz that has also been picked up by the Czech new agency CTK. The Slovenian Foreign Ministry would not comment, and the US Embassy in Ljubljana did "not have anything to announce at this time".

Slovenia has added Bulgaria, Romania, the Bahamas, India and five Spanish administrative units to its red list of countries from which arrival entails a mandatory two-week quarantine due to coronavirus. Spain, Belgium, Australia, Morocco, Andorra and Canada have been removed from the green list of safe countries, and demoted to yellow.