Coronavirus in Slovakia: More than 7,000 positive and 56 victims (minute by minute) – SME.sk

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10:05 SLOVAKIA – During yesterday, 4,794 people completed the first vaccination against covid, their number thus increased to 2,564,688. 2,430,137 people are fully vaccinated, 522 more were added last day, the Ministry of Health informed.

10:00 SLOVAKIA – Last day, 7,418 positive people tested in the form of RT-PCR tests. The laboratories evaluated 23,440 tests (positivity 31.64 percent).

Number of deaths due to pulmonary disease COVID-19 increased by another 56 to a total of 13,781, it said National Center for Health Information.

Coronavirus in Slovakia: Current graphs can be found here

There are 2,945 patients in the hospitals, 41 more than in the previous day.

9:43 WORLD – The first known case of COVID-19 was a market seller in the Chinese city of Wuhan, not an accountant who apparently had no connection with the marketplace., but whose case has contributed to speculation that the virus may have escaped from the laboratory, according to a US study reported by the agency Reuters.

However, the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, remain unclear and still cause tensions between China and the United States.

The accountant, who was widely considered the first person with COVID-19, said his first symptoms appeared on December 16. His symptoms did not appear until several cases of market vendors who had already experienced the symptoms on December 11, “said scientist Michael Worobey of the University of Arizona in the study. The study was published in the journal Science.

Most of the first recorded symptomatic cases were related to the market, specifically to the western part, where raccoon dogs were located in cages.

Last month, the World Health Service proposed a new team of experts to examine the source of the coronavirus.

9:25 WORLD People who are not vaccinated against the covid are in danger of life, the Prime Minister of the Hungarian government warned today in a regular interview with the public radio station Kossuth Rádió Viktor Orbán.

“We are receiving reports of the bad situation of entire families,” the prime minister added.

8:40 SLOVAKIA As of November 15, the Ministry of Labor paid out more than 2.2 billion euros in first aid. It has supported around five million monthly earnings of employees, including the self-employed.

7:54 WORLD – Laboratories in the Czech Republic detected 13,374 cases of coronavirus infection on Thursday. It’s almost three thousand more than a week ago. The number of people who ended up in hospitals rose to 4,750.

6:55 WORLD – In the last 24 hours, Germany has recorded 52,970 newly confirmed cases of coronavirus infection and 201 deaths associated with it. Exactly a week ago, the country reported 48,640 infected and 191 deaths.

The seven-day incidence continues to rise, now at 340.7 infected per 100,000 population, 263.7 a week ago.

6:00 WORLD – Today, the Saxon government will decide to impose significant restrictions for about three weeks. Due to the extremely unfavorable epidemic situation, measures for the unvaccinated against Covid-19 are expected to be tightened.

IN Austria the representatives of the Länder will negotiate with Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg on a flat lock house.

0:01 WORLD – Greece has joined European countries that have decided to impose additional restrictions on people not vaccinated against covid as a result of the increase in infections in recent weeks.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced in a televised speech that from next Monday, the unvaccinated will be banned from entering interiors, including restaurants, cinemas, museums and gyms, regardless of a possible negative test result.

In Greece, 11 million, about 62 percent of the population is still fully vaccinated, with local authorities hoping that the figure will rise to about 70 percent by the end of autumn.