LJUBLJANA, March 22 (Xinhua) -- Slovenian Health Minister Tomaz Gantar announced Sunday that a second coronavirus patient has died.
Gantar told reporters that both patients who had died were in their 90s and had underlying conditions.
According to the Slovenian Press Agency STA, the second victim was an elderly woman from the Metlika nursing home with several underlying conditions with the infection not seen as the cause of death.
"It's hard to say at the moment that anyone has died only because of being infected with COVID-19. Both people who have died in Slovenia so far were around 90 years old and had other accompanying illnesses," said Gantar.
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Slovenia rose by 31 to 414 by 2 p.m. on Sunday, while 13,098 tests were conducted with Gantar noting that Slovenia was among the countries with the highest testing rates.
