ONLINE Slovakia has a new RECORD in cases on covid – Pluska.sk

CURRENT SITUATION IN SLOVAKIA

• 712,749 cases of the disease have been confirmed in Slovakia so far.
• There were 15,278 positive cases on Thursday (December 2).
• We have a total of 14,696 (+90) victims.

CURRENT SITUATION IN THE WORLD

Infected: 264,693,896
Deaths: 5,253,868
Number of cured: 238,258,324

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18:00 Two thousand people in the Swiss cantons of Geneva and Vaud, including about 1,600 children, had to go to a ten-day quarantine after finding out two cases of infection with the coronavirus variant omicron on the campus of a private international school.

17:00 The number of patients with COVID-19 hospitalized at the FD Roosevelt University Hospital with Polyclinic (FNsP) in Banská Bystrica has approached the maximum from the peak of the second wave of the new coronavirus pandemic in recent days. TASR was informed about this by the hospital’s spokeswoman Ružena Maťaše.

16:00 Saturday (December 4) is the tenth day when the data will be re-evaluated after the lockdown was introduced in Slovakia. This was stated by Prime Minister Eduard Heger during a press conference on Friday. If any relaxation of the measures is possible, then, according to the Prime Minister, it is for the vaccinated people and those who have already overcome the COVID-19 disease. “When and how, let’s leave it at tomorrow’s review,” said the prime minister.

15:00 On Thursday (December 2), the Prešov Regional Criminal Service in Humenné carried out a police action against persons suspected of committing the crime of unauthorized treatment of medicines, drugs and medical devices. Two people were detained during the operation in connection with the illicit trade in Ivermectin.

14:00 The World Health Organization (WHO) said it has not yet reported any deaths related to the new coronavirus variant omicron. The WHO is currently collecting information on the new variant. According to Lindmeier, he is currently still investigating how contagious omicron is and whether it causes a severe course of the disease, writes Reuters.

13:00 The Prešov self-governing region has been strengthening its vaccination strategy since Monday (December 6). It introduces vaccination and revaccination with the COVID-19 vaccine in two shopping centers in Prešov and Poprad, also in a working week regime. They will make the vaccine available in the afternoon.

12:00 9,264 suspected suspicions of adverse reactions were reported to the State Institute for Drug Control (ŠÚKL) in connection with coronavirus vaccination on Wednesday (December 1). Of the total number, 1181 were evaluated as serious. By Thursday (December 2), the institute had registered seven deaths due to vaccination, of which in four cases the connection was determined to be possible (Pfizer / BioNTech, Moderna and AstraZeneca) and three as probable (after the AstraZeneca vaccine).

11:30 The previous record was 10,315 cases from November 23. Today, Slovakia was shocked by the huge increase in new infections yesterday (more than 15,000). However, according to the Ministry of Health, this is an error in the data, resp. the number does not match the cases just for yesterday.

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11:00 On Friday, the Israeli government ended a controversial monitoring of the location of omicron infections via secret-enabled mobile phones on Friday. However, if the number of infected increases, the government will consider reintroducing monitoring. The measure was used in Israel at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, but was dropped after a wave of criticism.