There were more than 60 deaths in Covid. Slovakia needs to prepare for the expansion of omicron today – Startitup

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There were 61 COVID-19 victims in the past day. 2,834 Slovaks received the first dose of vaccine. The National Center for Health Information informed about it on the website covid-19.nczisk.sk.

Last day, 2,370 people had a positive RT-PCR test, with the most cases detected in the Bratislava Region, namely 534. In the Žilina Region, 340 more tested, in Trnavský 337, Trenčiansky 306 and in Nitra 289. The Košice Region recorded 243 new infections, Banskobystrický 161 and Prešovský 160.

In Slovakia, 20,318 antigen tests were performed last day, of which 678 were positive. Of these, non-vaccinated or only partially vaccinated people accounted for almost 73 percent, in the case of PCR tests it was more than 69 percent.

There are 596 people in the intensive care units and departments of anesthesiology and intensive care. 293 people need the support of artificial lung ventilation, of which 35 patients are fully vaccinated. Almost 79 percent of all hospitalized Slovaks are not vaccinated or have only one dose of vaccine.

The total number of people vaccinated with the first dose of the vaccine is 2,698,793. 2,393,664 people received the second dose of the vaccine and a total of 607,664 people had already received the third, ie booster dose.

The total number of deaths “with COVID” is 15,415 and the total number of deaths “with COVID” is 2,801.

Mathematician Richard Kollár states on the social network that the public is dissatisfied and not surprised after two years of the pandemic.

“Pandemic measures have long limited what is absolutely necessary for them. Not a day, two, but months. They get them into unsolvable life situations. The lack of opportunities to carry out one’s own needs often destroys many lives much more than COVID-19. “

He claims that fortunately, many are also extremely patient. “Only if we are patient, when our athletes will be unsuccessful, when our school graduates will be uneducated, when our specialists will be inexperienced without experience. When even the last nurses leave our country. “

It may also be that only those who remain here will rule us and want to rule in the bleak state of society. It is, of course, clear that we urgently need pandemic measures, as they directly prevent avoidable deaths in the short and long term, the mathematician states.

source: TASR / AP Photo / Pavel Golovkin

So we have to do something. What is, and has been, the way out of this vicious circle? According to Kollár, there is exceptions, flexibility and mutual empathy. This is what works in the Nordic countries, and it is assumed that people will not abuse the system if it allows them to carry out their own necessities.

He argues that as a company, we need to strongly evaluate individual cases, assess details and not wholes.

“Sure, we don’t have enough people, but that’s exactly where the mistake was made. Because it is not necessary to close all children’s rings, all shops or all establishments in terms of the spread of the infection, only those that we can close. It’s not really important to ban battery sales for a month for everyone outside of online shopping. “

He reminds us that we need to be flexible.

He also points to the arrival of the omicron variant. “If it turns out that the clinical course of the disease in at least one of the omicron groups is at least comparable to the delta and the alpha, and the omicron spreads extremely quickly and effectively, we will find that non-pharmaceutical measures can slow down the spread. very little and locally. “

The question of what is necessary will be on the table again. It recalls that in order to slow down proliferation, it will be necessary to limit everything that is not necessary. It will probably be January and February, but we should address it today. At least in the north of Europe, this is already happening.

“And the issues we are dealing with today should have been addressed two months ago. Think for yourself what is a necessity for you personally and what is all and for how long you are able to give up. “

Sources: NCZI, MZSR, Facebook / Richard Kollár