Slovenia has reached a new low for coronavirus cases under lockdown, and the number of hospitalized coronavirus patients fell under 100 for the first time since March 28th. The number of coronavirus patients in intensive care units remains quite low at less than 40. To date, the virus has killed 53 in Slovenia, with almost all deaths connected with the significant clusters at aged-care facilities, in Ljutomer, Smarje Pri Jelsah and Metlika.
A graph showing daily number of people tested positive for coronavirus, a number of deceased coronavirus patients, and a total number of hospitalized coronavirus patients, patients in intensive care units, and patients released from a hospital.
Six reasons Slovenia is winning the battle against Coronavirus COVID-19
1. Slovenia’s first confirmed cases of coronavirus were imported by tourists travelling from Morocco via Italy. They were diagnosed on March 4th, and immediately put in quarantine while officials did contact investigation to discover other possible cases. SLOVENIA ACTED IMMEDIATELY AND FORCEFULLY.
2. Slovenia has a well-organized healthcare system which immediately jumped into action preparing their hospitals for a possible tsunami of patients, stocking their facilities with protective equipment for doctors and nurses, and readying their facilities with extra beds, ventilators, and most importantly testing kits to diagnose cases. SLOVENIA ACTED WITH A SENSE OF URGENCY NOT SEEN IN OTHER COUNTRIES, FOR INSTANCE ITALY AND USA.
3. Slovenia has initiated an educational campaign about the coronavirus, including press conferences with health officials and doctors. EVERYONE IS UNITED AGAINST THE CORONAVIRUS.
4. Slovenia entered lockdown mode very early and swiftly closed down facilities where the virus could be spread, including schools, religious services, major concerts and events, and urged everyone to stay at home. Public transport, restaurants and stores were closed. SLOVENIANS UNITED AS NEVER BEFORE TO PROTECT THEMSELVES AND EACH OTHER FROM THIS DEADLY VIRUS.
5. Slovenians are traditionally a clean people, so the suggestion to wash hands frequently with soap or hand sanitizer was not that difficult to incorporate. SLOVENIANS UNDERSTOOD THAT STOPPING THE SPREAD OF COVID-19 WAS IN THEIR HANDS.
6. Culturally, Slovenians are a respectful and community-oriented people. The new habits of how to sneeze and cough safely, how to maintain a safe distance from others, and how to keep one’s hands constantly clean – all recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) – were adopted easily by Slovenians citizens. THESE GOOD HABITS STOP THE SPREAD OF CORONAVIRUS.
Stay at home Stay safe x
Well done Slovenia keep up the good work.
Today’s picture in the private garden places in the capital city didn’t show a promising trend… Too many people on picknicks, at the Sava river shore, etc. In 10 days or so, we’ll see. Also, its always necessary to look the No. of new ‘positive’ people in the aspect of No. of all the tests made that day. It is only as half of the No. of tests of previous days.
The key factor is population density.
No offence but I’d have to disagree. Singapore and Taiwan have very few cases/deaths with a high density population. While Slovenia’s low pop density might help a little bit, you’d have to say that the measures are working. Their government and people should be commended.
Keep up the good work!
Do you guys think we will have a second wave of the virus or be hit by it again? Sorry for asking a stupid question.
Numbers coming over Easter aren’t going to be totally accurate.
These countries are proofs that lockdown works. And thus, provide motivation to stay home one more day.
This is amazing! Hard work pays off.
Yup we are all bored but it’s so worth it.
This is good news, but there were also only about 600 tests done compared to around 1200 of previous days. So I would want to see a couple more days of falling numbers to be sure
Testing rate had a mild dip because it’s Easter weekend, and heaps of people here take that holiday seriously. Things should speed back up shortly.
Could also mean less people getting tested cos less are showing symptoms. I’m hoping that’s true at least.
Fewer tests because of Easter though. Let’s see what it looks like next week, but it is looking promising.
Good for Slovenia! Those who are concerned about their lack of immunity, I am very interested to see how it works out for the countries that didn’t take these sort of measures early on. My gut feeling is they have enough deaths and economic damage but with still not enough people to have been infected to confer herd immunity. By the time enough people are infected to have some immunity, the number of deaths and time spent in lockdown to try and not pressure the health systems will be disastrous. Their lockdowns are just damage control and damage control that will be going on until probably 2021. At least in Slovenia if there were further outbreaks they will have resources to track and trace which is impossible in countries will presumed hundreds of thousands infected.
As long as no one enters Slovenia and no one leaves/returns, they’ll be great.
Borders are closed to all but citizens / residents and mandatory supervised 2-week isolation in place for all new arrivals. No problems.
Between direct and indirect contributions tourism accounts for ~12% of GDP and ~16% of total employment.
Seems like indefinitely closing that industry could be a problem.
Looking good – this is what happens with decisive, science-led leadership and good community spirit.
I’m going insane in this lockdown but it seems to be working so I’m happy to do my part!
Just how strict is the lockdown? Are essential services still working – groceries, pharmacies, banks, deliveries?
Yep all of those
One of the first to require masks. Likely made a big difference.
Well done. Brilliant news.
If only the US could take this half as seriously & get their heads out of the flipping sand…unfortunately I don’t see that happening.
Keep up the good work, Slovenia! Your efforts are getting good results!
I am so happy for your country. Our cases in the United States just keep growing.
Just keep following the rules! That we can all enjoy the beauty of this beautifull country and its people
Good job Slovenia, from Slovakia!
Anyone know the situation in Serbia? My main client is there. I know she is ok, but the larger situation?
Not great not terrible, but unironically. Measures are pretty hardcore but a combination of incompetent government and unruly and uneducated population made things worse than they should look right now. Luckily both government and population are making positive advances, many more are following the rules and wearing masks than 2-3 weeks ago and the government managed to reach 2000 daily tests which is not much but for a country that started with testing 200-400 every day and having 30-40% positive rate, this is a solid improvement. Of course, we aren’t doing as well like Croatia and Slovenia but if that was the case Yugoslavia would still exist today.
Younger folks are a big issue in Serbia, they are loud, uneducated, aggressive and since the start is the major force of disruption. But that is what you get after decades of war and poverty.
Personally I expected Serbia to completely fall apart but thankfully that has not been the case. Currently, it seems we are walking on the top of the curve with about 250 new infections daily. In few days that number should start going down unless something bad happens.
Go Slovenia! They also have very little population, so I’m happy they managed it so well!
Also at 16k tests per million Slovenia is testing A LOT. One of the best rates in Europe, might be even the best out of countries with minor outbreaks. So they are bound to catch cases, which makes all this so much more impressive!
Yeah italy scared us…
It’s amazing what happens when you take things seriously and listen to your public health advisors
It’s an overreacting complete lockdown that imposed restrictions on economy and personal liberties on levels few others in the world did, only to let corona run rampant in retirement homes. Nearly a quarter of all cases are in those homes, and almost all deaths. On top of that, journalists were barred from press conferences on these bullshit basis, and questions were only accepted via email, and you can bet tough questions didn’t get picked.
As an extra addition, one of the government cherry-picked “experts” claimed that without stopping corona, Slovenia would certainly have 90 000 deaths – a number that would mean we’d have at minimum (assuming 80% of pop gets infected) 6% mortality, a 1000% larger ratio than any other estimate in Europe.
What would you do different and achieve the same results ?
Yeah, because they tested only around 500 people and not 1200 like they usually do. By Tuesday when holidays end, they will report higher numbers again..
I hope every one is doing the right thing or it will not work very well. If some people are isolating and others are not, it is like having a pee section in a swimming pool.
A very hard life-lesson is being learned right now! Let’s hope we remember it!
I cant wait to go back out and grab a big one at Cutty sark pub, just stroll on Ljubljanica banks, sit on Preseren square, say hi to the pal working at the burger place, go to the fucking football match!
Hopefully soon…
I fully expect that even in those countries doing well that there will be degrees of loosening and tightening of lockdown procedures over the next twelve months or so in order to manage the infection rate. Until a vaccine or some widespread herd immunity is developed, we won’t eliminate the virus to the extent required to resume previous global openness, and as long as its present anywhere there will be some degree of lockdowns, isolations or stringent border control.