Slovenia Times
Ljubljana – Slovenia reported 159 new coronavirus cases in 2,117 PCR tests on Saturday, down significantly from the week before. The test positivity rate was 7.5%. Four Covid-19 patients died, fresh government data show.
A total of 9,425 people were screened with rapid antigen tests with all the positives there subjected to PCR tests.
Hospitalisations dropped to 306 this morning, from 319 the day before, and the number of patients in intensive care decreased by four to 98.
The 7-day average of new cases fell to 337 from 356. The cumulative 14-day incidence per 100,000 residents is at 262.
Slovenia has confirmed 251,690 cases since the start of the pandemic, of which 5,588 are estimated active, according to data by the National Institute of Public Health (NIJZ).
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The patients are between 16 and 54 years old and most (66 per cent) are women. The infected live in different parts of the country: Viken (3), Trøndelag (5), Rogaland (2), Vestland (3), Møre og Romsdal (1) and Vestfold and Telemark (1).
Bacteria with the same DNA profile have been detected in all fifteen people.
The patients are interviewed and the local Norwegian Food Safety Authority takes samples from food products in the homes of those who are infected, if residues are available, in order to find the source of the outbreak if possible. Such investigative work can be complicated and time consuming, and in many cases it will not be possible to find the source of the infection or to clarify whether it is a common source.
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The National Committee for the Coordination of Vaccination Activities against COVID-19 (CNCAV) informs that, in the past 24 hours, 54,065 doses of vaccine have been administered, of which 37,623 Pfizer, 5,981 Moderna, 7,752 AstraZeneca and 2,709 Johnson&Johnson.
The data were provided by the National Institute of Public Health through the National Electronic Vaccination Register application.
According to the CNCAV, in the past 24 hours, 23,209 people were vaccinated with the first dose and 30,856 people with the second, Agerpres informs.
As of December 27, 2020, 7,328,556 doses were given to a number of 4,136,319 persons, of which 944,082 received only the first dose and 3,192,237 including the second.
In the past 24 hours, there have been 43 side effects recorded - 6 local and 37 systemic.
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21-05-2021
In the latest episode of “Health in Europe”, we speak with Dr Tracey Cooper, Chief Executive of Public Health Wales about health equity and the need for governments and policy-makers to bridge gaps to equity to strengthen the eventual recovery from the pandemic. The episode coincides with the final day of European Public Health Week, focusing on leaving no one behind in health.
This is the first episode in a mini-series on health equity that features interviews with representatives of ILGA Europe and the European Federation of National Organisations Working with the Homeless (FEANTSA) – as well as the National Institute of Public Health, the Institute for Economic Research and the Social Protection Institute of the Republic of Slovenia.