As all secondary school students are returning to in-person schooling next Monday, Dnevnik says in Friday's commentary that this comes only after boycotts and protests that Prime Minister Janez Janša had chosen to ignore, as he has clearly forgotten what teenage rebellion is actually about.

A period of sunny weather in Slovenia will be interrupted by a cloudy day with precipitation on Friday. Light rain will be possible already in the morning and the precipitation will grow stronger in the afternoon, turning into snow in the evening. A north-easterly wind will blow inland and a bora wind is expected in the western Primorska region.

Sexual harassment, gender inequality and manipulation of results were listed as some of the unethical practices in science in an online debate hosted by the Commission for Equal Opportunities in Science on Thursday.

Slovenia will step up health checks on its borders starting on Monday. It plans to reintroduce checkpoints on internal borders, which were scrapped in mid-February, and tighten quarantine rules for arrivals, Interior Minister Aleš Hojs told the press on Thursday.

Franc Vindišar, the medical director of the Celje General Hospital, has been appointed a state secretary at the Health Ministry. He will join the ministry on Monday, the government decided today.

A total of 1,019 persons tested positive for coronavirus in Slovenia on Wednesday in 5,822 PCR tests, and four people died, the government said on Thursday. There are an estimated 10,868 active cases in the country. So far, 83 cases of the UK variant have been detected, 7 cases of the Nigerian variant and 2 of the South African variant.

Bars and restaurants in two eastern regions, Posavje and South-east Slovenia, will be able to start serving customers outdoor as of Monday, Economy Minister Zdravko Počivalšek announced on Twitter. Initially, this will be a one-week test to see how things turn out.