Skip to main content

Slovenia Weekly: Let’s close ranks

The New Year’s holidays distracted us somewhat from worrying about the coronavirus epidemic, but the questions remain: will we overcome the disease with vaccination, when will children return to schools and universities, will the health system and the economy withstand the burden of the epidemic.

Slovenia is entering the third week of free and voluntary coronavirus testing and the second week of vaccinating, first, the most vulnerable, and then, gradually, everyone else. The state and the Ministry of Health decided that rapid testing, as dispersed as possible, would be carried out by all possible health providers after the good response to rapid antigen testing in certain regions in the first few days of the new year. Mass testing and vaccination will certainly contribute to children’s laughter being heard again in schools and kindergartens more quickly.

Let’s close our ranks in the fight against this insidious disease which poses an equal threat to all of us. There are still a few challenging weeks ahead that we must endure. But, as of 1 January, spring is also closer and with it a victory over the epidemic and that which we all desire the most: a return to normal life as we knew it at the beginning of last year, highlights and encourages Prime Minister Janez Janša.