COVID-19 pandemic in Slovenia

[3] The first few days of the pandemic were challenging for Slovenia due to the resignation of Prime Minister Marjan Šarec in late January and the formation of a new government.

[4] Slovenia's initial handling of the coronavirus outbreak was cited as a significant success when Europe faced the first wave of the pandemic, and earned praise for its effectiveness.

[9] On 12 January 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that a novel coronavirus was the cause of a respiratory illness in a cluster of people in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China, which was reported to the WHO on 31 December 2019.

As a result, some government support measures, such as financial aid to citizens and firms hit by the coronavirus, expired at the end of May.

[65] The labor committee approved a bill on intervention measures in preparation for the second wave, which provides the basis for an app for tracking infected people.