17. Feb 2022 at 23:59 I Updated at 11:22
PCR tests revealed more than 1.3 million coronavirus infections. The Covid-19 pandemic claimed 18,201 lives.
We follow coronavirus in Slovakia minute by minute:
11:05 WORLD – California has become the first state in the United States to have a plan to prevent and respond quickly to epidemics. It concerns the protection of the population itself as well as interventions in the business sphere, the agency informs AP.
According to the plan, the local government is to invest in processes that will help identify the rise of the pandemic and the variants more quickly coronavirus. The plan also includes a rapid strengthening of the health sector, replenishment of stocks and interventions against the spread of false reports.
“We are going through a phase of crisis to a phase in which we will try to live with this virus,” California Gov. Gavin told News at a news conference from warehouse with supplies in Fontana.
10:55 WORLD – South Korea will extend restaurant opening hours, but will keep the limit of six in private meetings as it struggles with another wave of pandemics.
The new 109,831 cases represent a 25-fold increase compared to mid-January. At that time, it began to spread in the country omicron variantinforms the Agency AP.
More than 516,000 new infections in the last seven days have increased the total number of cases to more than 1.75 million.
Seoul residents are waiting for coronavirus testing. (source: SITA / AP)
10:45 SLOVAKIA – By Wednesday, February 16, 10,823 suspected adverse reactions were reported to the State Institute for Drug Control in connection with vaccination against the new coronavirus. Out of the total number of reports, they evaluated 1547 as serious. Institute about it informs on its website.
The institute records a total of seven deaths related to vaccination, of which in four cases the connection was determined to be possible and in three as probable.
In other closed cases, including some mediated relationships, they excluded.
10:05 SLOVAKIA – During yesterday’s first dose vaccines 291 people were vaccinated against Covid, increasing their number to 2,815,697. 2,579,908 people have already received two benefits.
10:00 SLOVAKIA – In the past day, 17,536 positive people were tested in the form of RT-PCR tests. The laboratories evaluated 31,179 samples (positivity 56.24 percent).
Of the 20,248 samples taken by antigen testing, 2,233 (11.03 percent) were positive.
Coronavirus in Slovakia: Current graphs can be found here
Twenty-two people have died from Covid-19since the beginning of the pandemic, the number of victims has risen to 18,201, she said National Center for Health Information.
Districts with the highest increments of new cases:
1342 – Bratislava
851 – Kosice
630 – Zilina
587 – Nitra
531 – Prievidza
There are 2,524 coronavirus patients in hospitals. Of these, 727 are vaccinated. 95 patients need lung ventilation support, nine of whom are fully vaccinated.
They found the most positive PCR testing in the Košice region (2,555). They are followed by the Prešov Region (2,293), the Bratislava Region (2,279), the Žilina Region (2,274), the Nitra Region (2,134), the Trenčín Region (2,090), the Trnavský Region (1,987) and the Banská Bystrica Region (1,924).
Since the beginning of the pandemic, 6,156,090 PCR tests have been evaluated, of which 1,324,503 with a positive result. The total number of antigen tests performed is 42,882,562, of which 639,908 showed positivity.
9:50 WORLD – Germany has overcome the peak of the coronavirus wave caused by the omicron variant. Despite the high number of infections, hospitals are not overloaded, German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach said today.
“I don’t see the risk of overloading the hospitals at the moment, but we have to be careful,” Lauterbach said.
However, he warned that the so-called Scandinavian subvariant of omicron BA.2, the share of which is growing in Germany, could cause problems. “But we are not yet in safe waters. The problem may be the BA.2 variant, which now has a share of about 15 percent in Germany,” he said.
According to Lauterbach, variant BA.2 is more contagious than the original omicron and also appears to cause a slightly more severe course of infection.
The Robert Koch Institute records 220,048 new infections on Thursday.
9:44 WORLD – The fight against the Hong Kong pandemic intensified when authorities said new cases had multiplied by about 60 times this month. Local government Prime Minister Carrie Lam said she was considering city-wide testing.
9:40 WORLD – There have been more than 23,000 new cases and 38 covid-related deaths in Australia. Most of the 2.7 million confirmed cases of the pandemic in Australia have been identified since the onset and spread of the omicron variant in late November. The total number of deaths is 4,836, the agency said Reuters.
9:20 WORLD In the last 24 hours, 7,480 cases of coronavirus infections have occurred in Hungary, and one hundred patients have died in connection with the covid.
8:00 WORLD The spread of covid in the Czech Republic continues to slow down. On Thursday, tests revealed 15,517 new cases, about a third less than a week ago. There were 3,720 patients with proven covid in the hospitals. The condition of 260 of them is assessed by doctors as difficult.
