Ljubljana - Slovenia confirmed another 7,458 coronavirus cases on Saturday in what continues to be a drop in Covid cases in weekly comparison for the third consecutive day, show fresh official data.

Hospitalisations remain stable as a total of 393 patients are hospitalised with Covid-19 as their main condition at regular wards, up by two, and 119 at intensive care units, also up by two.

In all, 969 infected patients are in hospitals, and additional 16 people with Covid died on Saturday, the government said.

The 7-day average of daily cases dropped by 912 to 13,092 and the 14-day incidence per 100,000 people was down by 318 to 9,043, show data by the National Institute of Public Health.

The number of estimated active cases was down by some 6,700 to 190,596.

The latest infections were confirmed from 1,748 PCR tests and 77,178 rapid antigen tests. The results of the latter no longer need to be double-checked with the more reliable PCR method.