(ANSA) - LUBIANA - In Slovenia, the National Security Council has adopted a series of restrictive measures to limit the spread of coronavirus, including the body temperature measurement at the border with Italy and the airport of Ljubljana. The main sporting events will be held without an audience, whereas schools and kindergartens will be closed only in case of need and according to the number of infections in each area. The STA news agency reported that the Minister of Health, Ales Sabeder, at the end of the session of the Security Council, said that the prevention activities in the health centers of Metlika, Novo Mesto, Crnomelj and in the General Hospital of Novo Mesto, in Lower Carniola (Bela Krajina) on the south-eastern border with Croatia, would be suspended, whereas urgent specialist examinations would be postponed. The authorities also urged people from Carniola to limit travels and encouraged employers to adopt remote working solutions. So far, 23 new coronavirus cases have been confirmed in Slovenia against 1,227 tests.

Fifteen patients are hospitalized at the University Polyclinic Center in Ljubljana, all in isolation, who currently do not require any specific treatment. (ANSA).