Ljubljana - Another 279 people tested positive for coronavirus in Slovenia on Wednesday, a bank holiday, as the 7-day average of new cases dropped to 855 and the 14-day notification rate per 100,000 of the population dropped to 640, data from the National Institute of Public Health shows.

The number of patients treated in hospitals for Covid-19 has remained level at 99 but the number of those requiring intensive care dropped by two from yesterday to 12, as one patient died, according to the Health Ministry.

There are still an estimated 13,554 actively infected people in the country, more than a thousand fewer than the estimate the day before.