Ljubljana - The Covid-19 epidemic keeps receding in Slovenia with both new infections and patients in need of hospital treatment decreasing, data from the National Institute of Public Health and Health Ministry shows. Cases were down on Monday by nearly 22% week-on-week to 2,653, while three patients with Covid died.

This morning 123 patients were treated for Covid at regular Covid wards and another 17 in intensive care. The figures are down by 12 and 5, respectively, from yesterday.

The total number of patients with Covid is 295 - the figure includes patients hospitalised due to Covid and those hospitalised due to other causes but who are at the same time infected with coronavirus, down 58 from yesterday.

The National Institute of Public Health estimates that there are still 27,904 actively infected people in the country, down from almost 35,000 a week ago.

The 7-day average of new cases has dropped to 1,723 and the 14-day notification rate per 100,000 of the population to 1,321.