LJUBLJANA, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- In the past 24 hours, the COVID-19 death toll in Slovenia increased by 24 and reached 3,022, official figures showed on Monday.

The total number of confirmed cases rose by 426 to 139,713, the National Institute of Public Health (NIJZ) said.

On Sunday, 2,200 tests were performed -- 1,720 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests and 480 antigen tests -- with 368 (21.4 percent) and 58 (12.1 percent), respectively, coming back positive.

The national COVID-19 tracker site Sledilnik shows that there are currently 24,320 active cases in Slovenia. A total of 1,205 patients are in hospital for COVID-19, 198 of them in intensive care.

Graphs shown by Jelko Kacin, the government's COVID-19 spokesman, at Monday's press briefing showed that hospitalizations have been rising, while deaths have been declining.

The first batch of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine is expected to arrive in Slovenia on Tuesday, according to the NIJZ. Moderna's is the second vaccine against COVID-19 to be authorized by the European Union (EU) after the Pfizer-BioNtech's vaccine, which was greenlighted by the EU on Dec. 21, 2020.

As the world is struggling to contain the pandemic, vaccination is underway in some countries with the already-authorized coronavirus vaccines.

Meanwhile, 235 candidate vaccines are still being developed worldwide -- 63 of them in clinical trials -- in countries including Germany, China, Russia, Britain and the United States, according to information released by the World Health Organization on Jan. 6. Enditem

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