A corpus of readers' news comments posted below news articles on the topic of the covid-19 pandemic, published in major Slovenian daily newspapers and news portals in the six-month early pandemic period (March 2020 to September 2020). The corpus is designed to facilitate research on crisis discourses, crisis communication, as well as pandemic-time linguistic innovation. It is available in plain text version and XML with full metadata. The corpus complements a separate corpus of news articles Slovenian Coronavirus Corpus NewsSLO. Parallel versions from Croatia and Serbia are also available. The project leading to this publication has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the H2020-EU.4. - SPREADING EXCELLENCE AND WIDENING PARTICIPATION programme Widening fellowships grant agreement No 101038047.