The Slovenian government has declared an end to the coronavirus epidemic on March 12th, and the media described the decision as “surprising” on Friday, as Prime Minister Janez Jansa announced in parliament on Thursday that the epidemic would be declared and some restrictions lifted at the end of May.
“The current epidemiological situation allows for the mitigation of some measures that have been necessary so far to control the spread of covid-19, but not their abolition as a whole,” the government said in a statement after last night’s correspondence session. transit through Slovenia.
Slovenian media call the decision “surprising”, given that Prime Minister Jansa announced in parliament on Thursday that the epidemic would be revoked and that some restrictions would end at the end of May. They state that the end of the covida-19 epidemic has not been announced by any other European country so far, and that some Slovenian experts believe that the epidemic in the “medical” sense has not been revoked.
According to last night’s government decision on “measures at border crossings at the external border and checkpoints at Slovenia’s internal (Schengen) borders”, persons entering Slovenia who are its residents or have permanent or temporary residence in one of the EU countries and are not have left the EU for more than 14 days, only warnings of epidemiological measures against the spread of coronavirus are issued at the border, unless they themselves declare that they have covid-19 or show severe symptoms of the disease.
Slovenian Radio states that by last night’s government decision, measures of social distance, hand hygiene, wearing masks indoors still remain in force, and the ban on large public gatherings is still in force.
The same source said this morning that the government hastened to declare the end of the epidemic because otherwise, if it had not done so, the crisis intervention law on subsidies to the economy and citizens during the epidemic would automatically have to be extended until the end of next month. additional assistance.
Slovenians who want to go to Croatia, the new government decision allows them to travel more freely because they will no longer have to go into 7-day isolation after returning, Slovenian media reported this morning.
On Thursday, Prime Minister Janša assessed in parliament that Slovenia is the most successful country in the EU in dealing with the epidemic, that the epidemiological picture is very favorable given the very small number of new cases of covida-19 and that the government will focus on economic issues and recovery after a coronary crisis to avoid economic depression.
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