We follow coronavirus in Slovakia minute by minute – SME.sk

Dec 22, 2021 at 12:01 am I Updated at 10:19

PCR tests revealed more than 816,000 infected with coronavirus. The Covid-19 pandemic claimed 16,198 lives. There is a night curfew.

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10:20 SLOVAKIA – In Slovakia, more than 50 percent of the population are vaccinated with at least the first dose. This was stated by the Minister of Health of the Slovak Republic before Wednesday’s government meeting Vladimir Lengvarsky (nominant OĽANO).

“If we look in detail at the vaccination numbers of people over the age of 18, it can be stated that more than 6 out of 10 Slovaks are vaccinated,” the minister added.

According to Lengvarsky, the meeting is not scheduled until the opening of gastronomic establishments. “It certainly won’t be in the government,” Lengvarsky said.

10:18 WORLD – The coronavirus epidemic continues to slow in the Czech Republic. There were 11,825 new cases of the disease in the Czech Republic on Tuesday coronaviruswhich is almost 4,900 less than a week ago. In one laboratory in Brno, they detected 16 positive samples of the variant omicron.

He reported on Wednesday morning news iDNES.cz server with reference to the data of the Czech Ministry of Health.

There are currently 4678 patients hospitalized with a covid in Czech hospitals, 6100 of them a week ago. The number of patients in serious condition is also declining. It has decreased from 993 to 821 in the past seven days.

The incidence, which is at the level of 563, has also been decreasing for a long time. The previous day this value was at the level of 608. The reproduction number, which shows the rate of coronavirus spread, decreased to 0.80 compared to Tuesday.

10:15 WORLD – The growth rate of the population in the USA during the first year of the pandemic fell to the lowest level since the country’s inception. The spread of the coronavirus has restricted immigration, postponed pregnancies and killed hundreds of thousands of US residents.

From July 2020 to July 2021, the U.S. population rose by only 392,665, or 0.1 percent, to 331.8 million. That’s according to data released by the U.S. Census Bureau on Tuesday.

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10:01 SLOVAKIA – The third dose vaccines received 34,574 people yesterday, a second dose of 3,754 people and a first dose of 3,555 people.

10:00 SLOVAKIA – 5080 people with a positive PCR test joined on Tuesday, more than 69 percent of them were not vaccinated. There were also 69 casualties.

The most positive tests were in the Žilina region, and the least in the Banská Bystrica region.

588 people had a positive antigen test, more than 74 percent of whom were not vaccinated.

We have 2920 patients with COVID-19 in hospitals, there are 516 patients in JIS and OAIM, 261 people need support for artificial lung ventilation. More than 83 percent of patients are not vaccinated or have only one dose of vaccine.

09:12 SLOVAKIA – Prime Minister Eduard Heger believes that he will be able to persuade coalition partners to make the vaccination for Covid-19 fair.

“The European Union’s trend is on compulsory vaccination. It is clear to everyone that we will not be able to get out without a pandemic vaccination. If we do not, we are reliant on lockdowns,” the prime minister told TASR.

08:20 WORLD – Japan has recorded its first case of omicron infectionwhich is probably the result of community spread. The omicron variant has been confirmed in three people in Osaka Prefecture. However, the authorities were unable to find out where they could become infected.

07:16 WORLD – In Germany, there were 45,659 new cases of coronavirus infection in the last day, with 510 patients affected Covid-19.

The number of infections in Germany is falling for about three weeks, experts fear that infected will begin to increase again for the more contagious variant omicron.

06:04 SLOVAKIA – The government is still facing negotiations before the Christmas holidays. Ministers will address 3B’s pandemic assistance to companies with a maximum of 49 employees and a drop in sales of at least 40 percent at Wednesday’s meeting.

The Ministry of Labor also submitted a proposal for further postponement of the payment of insurance premiums for the self-employed person (SZČO) and insurance premiums paid by the employer, for the period December 2021 – 31 December 2024.

0:03 WORLD – Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has announced that the country will soon start administering a fourth dose of covid vaccine to people over the age of 60 and health professionals, AFP reported.

The announcement came shortly after the fourth dose of the vaccine was recommended by a board of experts due to the spread of a new variant of omicron.

The prime minister called this recommendation of the expert council “an amazing report that will help us get through the omicron wave”.

In Israel, the number of omicron infections doubled only on Tuesday. The Israeli Ministry of Health announced on Tuesday that 170 new omicron infections had been added to the country, bringing the total to 340, according to the news portal The Times of Israel.

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