Coronavirus does not let us out of its grip: Laboratories are shocked by a number of positive tests – Nový Čas

We bring you the latest information. On Thursday, laboratories in Slovakia performed 20,047 PCR tests, which revealed 11,528 positives. Unfortunately, another 30 deaths from COVID-19 have occurred in the past day. The total number of victims in our country thus reaches 19,009. 22 patients died in hospitals. The National Center for Health Information informed about it on the website covid-19.nczisk.sk. “1,466 people had a positive result of the antigen test, more than 48 percent of those who tested positive were not vaccinated,” Zuzana Eliášová, a spokeswoman for the Ministry of Health, told TASR on Wednesday. “The highest positivity after PCR testing is reported from the districts of Bratislava (1295), Nitra (565) and Košice (497),” said NCZI spokeswoman Alžbeta Sivá. The highest number of positive PCR test results (2315) is recorded by NCZI in the age group from 35 to 44 years. “In the age group of 65 and over, there are 1118 people with a positive PCR test yesterday,” she said. There are 2435 patients with COVID-19 in the hospitals. There are 221 people at JIS and OAIM, 86 people need support for artificial lung ventilation. According to Eliáš, almost 69 percent of those hospitalized are not vaccinated or have only one dose of the vaccine. 261 people received the third dose of the vaccine on Tuesday. 708 people were vaccinated with the second dose of the vaccine, 36 people received the first dose of the vaccine.