Several thousand people gathered in the center of Ljubljana today to protest against the measures introduced by the Slovenian government for the mandatory certificates and vaccination for covid,

Some of the protesters carried state flags, and some carried slogans against government policies and the tightening of anti-epidemic measures.

Police this time increased the security measures of protest, which was not reported. At a similar protest a few days ago, the situation spiraled out of control, forcing police to use tear gas and water cannons to disperse protesters.

Dr zavni zbor je prazen. Poslanci so danyšnjo sejo zaključili že zgodaj popoldan. Terenu dogajanje spremlja team N1: @IvaLacan, @RomanaBG
in Denis Sadiković. See also: https://t.co/hu7rVJRj3Y pic.twitter.com/TQmuIcj76v

- N1 Slovenia (@ n1slovenija) September 22, 2021

Slovenian government introduces restrictive anti-covid measures to deal with growing number of newly infected covid

All employees of the state administration in Slovenia who do not have immunity, ie have not received a vaccine or have not contracted the disease in order to continue going to work will have to be vaccinated. A negative PCR test is no longer enough, the Slovenian government has decided.

According to the latest government decision, in order to continue going to work, the employees will have to receive the first dose by October 1, while the second no later than November 1, if they do not decide to receive the "Johnson & Johnson" vaccine which is applied in one dose.

The tightening of the epidemiological measures according to which for work, public transport, going to shopping malls, banks, post offices and other activities must have a quality certificate for vaccination or a negative test are in force from Wednesday. This sparked fierce protests in Ljubljana where protesters clashed with police.

Za zdaj mirni protesti pre praznim DZ. @ n1slovenija @RomanaBG pic.twitter.com/YER8fwdBlo

- Iva Lacan (@IvaLacan) September 22, 2021

However, Prime Minister Janez Jansa said the government would not back down and that restrictive measures had drastically increased interest in vaccination.

For Protestant is this five pravkar nastopil Werner. Spremljajte na @ n1slovenija. pic.twitter.com/BHm3n5TbKI

- Romana BG (@RomanaBG) September 22, 2021