Ljubljana – The government adopted on Thursday the 2022-2026 National Cancer Management Programme, whose aim is to slow down the number of new patients, increase the survival rate of cancer patients and improve their quality of life through reh...

Ljubljana – The Slovenian Medical Association has urged the authorities to impose mandatory vaccination against Covid-19 in order to return the healthcare system to normal. “We believe it is urgent to protect all patients and give them ac...

Ljubljana – Anita Ogulin, the head of the Botrstvo humanitarian project and a long-time volunteer, has been declared the Name of the Year by the Val 202 radio channel of the public broadcaster RTV Slovenija. It is because of Ogulin and her coll...

Ljubljana – Slovenians will celebrate Christmas for the second year during the pandemic against the backdrop of coronavirus restrictions, which are however somewhat milder this time around. While the Roman Catholic Church in Slovenia decided to...

Ljubljana – The newspaper Delo writes that Slovenians have thrown themselves into a “shopping frenzy” in Friday’s commentary under the same headline, noting the surge in household consumption in the third quarter. The paper di...

Ljubljana – Alfi, Slovenia’s largest private equity fund, has singed a EUR 50 million deal to acquire the hardware retailer Merkur Trgovina from HPS Investment Partners of the US, the newspaper Finance reports. According to the paper, Mer...

Ljubljana – Slovenia’s coronavirus curve continues on its increasingly slow downward trajectory with 1,203 new cases reported for Thursday, down 6% from a week ago. Two Covid-19 patients died, government data shows. Overall Covid-10 hospi...

Ljubljana – President Borut Pahor has paid a visit to Slovenia’s main Covid treatment facility on Christmas Eve, brining his traditional Christmas cookies. He said such traditions promoted small acts of kindness. “This is how we sho...

Ljubljana – More than 76,000 shots of coronavirus vaccines were delivered during the Vaccination Days, a special campaign between 19 and 23 December during which some vaccination centres were open around the clock. The vast majority were booste...

Ljubljana/Maribor – Members of the Slovenian Armed Forces (SAF) who came to hospitals’ aid in mid-November to help with rising Covid hospitalisations will wrap up their work at medical centres on Friday. “The hospitals have assessed...