Images from covid departments instead of hoaxes. See the best press photos of the Slovak Press Photo 2021 – Denník N

“When someone claims that it is a common flu, they should see those patients,” said anesthesiologist Oto Hloža in October last year, when the covid’s ward at Trenčín University Hospital was approaching a critical condition.

During one day, he accompanied the reporter of Denník N Veronika Folentová and the photographer Tomáš Benedikovič.

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People were in critical condition on the beds, only the last beds were available. The predictions were serious, but few people knew at the time how scary and long the second wave of the pandemic that was taking place in Slovakia at that time would be. To date, more than 12,000 people have died of covid-19, according to the Ministry of Health.

Coronavirus has also become a dominant topic 10th Slovak Press Photo competition. 157 photographers applied and the pandemic is showing in most of the competition areas – quite significantly.

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Life in the Red Zone: Four people died here. It is not always in the patient’s interest to use all treatment methods (report)

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