Coronavirus ONLINE: More than 10,000 new cases added on Tuesday – Aktuality.sk

The most important thing:

– Minister Lengvarsky proposes lockdown for all and for three weeks, Sulík wants less haste

– Free PCR after antigen test? The state pays for the testing of the positive

– If we grow to exceed 3,200 patients, healthcare cannot handle the onslaught

– We watched yesterday

ONLINE

12:50 – FICO: Minister of Health Vladimír Lengvarský (OĽANO nominee) should resign and be replaced by a “hard manager”. This was announced by the head of Smer-SD Robert Fico.

12:49 – ARMY: The elimination of new military doctors took place on Wednesday at the Academy of the Armed Forces of General Milan Rastislav Štefánik in Liptovský Mikuláš. All eleven will be deployed to hospitals immediately. TASR was informed about this by the spokeswoman of the Ministry of Defense, Martina Kovaľ Kakaščíková.

11:48 – SWITZERLAND: A referendum on the law on measures against the new coronavirus will take place in Switzerland on Sunday. Observers warn that tensions between supporters and opponents of the vaccine may escalate. The pre-vote campaign is accompanied by unprecedented levels of hostility, threats and even death threats faced by several politicians, including Health Minister Alain Berset. The AFP agency informed about it on Wednesday.

11:47 – GOVERNMENT: The speaker of the parliament, Boris Kollár, came to the meeting unexpectedly, and a coalition council meeting is expected with his arrival.

11:43 – KOMÁRNO: Agel Komárno Hospital has the situation with the development of the third wave of the pandemic under control. However, cases of a very severe course of COVID-19 disease are increasing, and only unvaccinated people end up on artificial lung ventilation. “Although the hospital has co-operated with vaccination and, together with three vaccination centers in the region, has vaccinated almost 200,000 people, recent developments show that non-vaccinated people may be at immediate risk of death, especially those with other accompanying diagnoses, obese and diabetics,” said hospital director Miroslav. Jaška.

11:37 – CONSULIUM OF EXPERTS: Consulium of experts proposes a three – week lockdown for everyone throughout Slovakia. According to them, the epidemic situation in Slovakia is critical and is reaching a level of humanitarian crisis. According to them, the morbidity of COVID-19 is higher than at the peak of the second wave of the pandemic. Only full-time teaching at primary school and kindergarten should be maintained.

11:28 – SCHOOLS: Currently, 82.7 percent of students in schools attend full-time education, and 17.3 percent of schoolchildren in the distance form. The Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sports (MŠVVaŠ) of the Slovak Republic informed about it on Wednesday. Data were provided by 89.3 percent of schools.

11:26 – MATOVIC: “I will support any measures that will protect health, lives and minimize economic damage,” said Finance Minister Igor Matovic before the government meeting.

11:08 – VACCINATION: The total number of people vaccinated with the first dose of the vaccine is 2,603,391. 2,338,236 people have already received the second dose of the vaccine, and 1,387 people have been vaccinated the past day. The third dose was given to 12,398 people yesterday, a total of 315,704.

10:46 – HANDLOVÁ: The senior center in Handlová will be quarantined until the beginning of December. The facility remained closed to protect the health of clients and employees, as tests there revealed several clients positive for the new coronavirus. Employees also remained in the center. Jana Paulínyová, a city spokeswoman, informed about it on Wednesday. (TASR)

10:45 – CZECH REPUBLIC: The main indicator of the seriousness of the pandemic situation will be the capacity of hospital beds after the expected arrival of the new Czech government, especially in intensive care units. This was stated on Wednesday by the candidate for Prime Minister Petr Fiala at a press conference of representatives of the coalition Spolu (ODS, KDU-ČSL, TOP 09), Pirates and the STAN movement, at which they presented their plan to fight the pandemic. (TASR)

10:44 – USA: From January 22, US President Joe Biden’s administration will demand that all foreigners entering the United States be vaccinated against COVID-19. The AP agency informed about it on Wednesday, referring to an unnamed high-ranking representative of the White House. (TASR)

10:37 – WE CROSS THE CRITICAL BORDER: We already have 3,200 covid patients in hospitals. More than 83 percent of them are not vaccinated. We have thus reached the critical limit and by definition in the covid vending machine, we are on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe.

At the same time, we reached a pandemic record in the number of new positive cases, with 10,315 more cases in the previous day.

10:35 – REMISOVA: Strict restrictions without the benefit of people protected by vaccination could significantly reduce people’s motivation to get vaccinated, which would only worsen the situation in Slovakia. Deputy Prime Minister Veronika Remišová (For People) stated this on the social network. She stressed that the lockdown only postponed the victims and suffering for several months. According to her, its only goal is to alleviate the current situation of congested hospitals.

10:34 – MINISTER OF DEFENSE: An alternative without the so-called lockdown does not exist, everything else is populism. This was stated by the Minister of Defense Jaroslav Naď (OĽANO) before the government meeting. He declared that he would vote on the government’s proposal for pandemic measures from the workshop of the Minister of Health Vladimír Lengvarský (OĽANO nominee).

10:33 – MARTIN: University the hospital in Martin continues to reprofile its clinical sites and increases the number of beds for patients with COVID-19. He currently has 159 beds set aside for this purpose, which is more than the maximum in the second wave of the pandemic.

10:30 – MIKLOŠ: Miklos claims that that there’s a covid, does not mean that the state does not have to deal with other acute problems. He included the low competitiveness of the Slovak economy. According to him, the Slovaks are stuck in the middle income trap and since 2012-2013 we are no longer catching up with the “better ones”.

10:11 – TRNAVSKÝ KRAJ: The Trnava self-governing region (TTSK) will expand the upcoming weekend vaccination in vaccination centers for the first time during the 3rd wave of the pandemic on Friday (November 26), when it will be possible to be vaccinated in Trnava, Galanta and Piešťany.

During Saturday (November 27) he will be vaccinated in all seven district cities and on Sunday (November 28) in Trnava. The TTSK communication department informed about it. The reason is the growing interest in vaccinations, last week it doubled. In all places, registered applicants will have priority over unregistered ones. (TASR)

10:08 – LENGVARSKÝ: The Chief Hygienist of the Slovak Republic, Ján Mikas, says that a tough lockdown for everyone would be ideal in order to limit mobility as much as possible. Minister of Health Vladimír Lengvarský confirmed that he is coming to the government with a proposal for a lockdown.

10:05 – MARTIN: Well-known activist Miroslav K. succumbed to the coronavirus. Peter Vons, Member of the National Council of the Slovak Republic for OĽANO and the City Council in Martin, informed about it.

10:04 – HUNGARY: The Hungarian government is sending out e-mails urging citizens to be vaccinated with a third dose of COVID-19 vaccine. Residents registered for covid vaccination are receiving an e-mail call, the news server portfolio.hu informed on Wednesday. (TASR)

10:00 – NEW PCR CASES: It was added yesterday 10 315 patients with COVID-19 based on a positive PCR test, of whom almost 72 percent were not vaccinated. The most positive tests were in the Bratislava region, the least in the Trnava region.

ANTIGEN TESTS: 2058 people had a positive antigen test, more than 73 percent of whom are not vaccinated.

HOSPITALS: We have reached a critical point in hospitals 3200 hospitalized patients. There are 288 people at JIS, 269 people need support for artificial lung ventilation. More than 83 percent of hospitalized patients with COVID-19 are not vaccinated.

09:41 – HUNGARY: It has increased in the past 24 hours in Hungary 12,637 infected new coronavirus and another 176 patients have died from COVID-19. This was announced on Wednesday by the Hungarian Operations Staff on the website koronavirus.gov.hu