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10:48 SLOVAKIA – Only the vaccinated will meet the pope. Minister of Health Vladimir Lengvarsky does not consider meeting test populations or those who have overcome the disease COVID-19. “I think the agreement is clear and it will work, I hope,” he said before the government meeting.

He clarified that neighboring Hungary, where several Slovaks are going to visit the Pope, can afford less strict measures also due to the higher vaccination.

“Thirty percent is about the difference between the vaccinations of Hungary and Slovakia. Even if it’s 20 percent, the exact number doesn’t matter. It’s a striking difference that causes you to have stricter measures, less stringent measures or no measures at all. That’s why why in Slovakia we cannot afford the comfort that Hungary can appeal to, “he underlined.

10:46 WORLD – mRNA vaccines protect against the Delta variant by 66 percent. The effectiveness of Pfizer / BioNTech and Moderna vaccines against coronavirus has fallen from 91 percent before the arrival of the variant delta, at 66 after the arrival of the delta.

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This is the result of an extensive study by American health experts, published on Tuesday. The information was provided by the AFP news agency

10:40 WORLD A U.S. intelligence report on the origins of the coronavirus, which they delivered to the White House on Tuesday, has not reached any conclusion. According to the American media, the reason is the lack of information from China, the AFP agency reported.

American president Joe Biden ordered the intelligence services to investigate the origin of the coronavirus three months ago. The report was unable to determine whether the coronavirus, which first appeared in central China, was transmitted to humans from animals or escaped from a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan. This was stated for The Washington Post by two unnamed American officials who are familiar with the matter.

The intelligence services thus failed to produce any results, despite Biden ordering them to “redouble their efforts” in the investigation.

“If China does not allow access to certain data, we will never find out,” one US official told the Washington Post. However, part of this report should be declassified in the coming days.

10:30 SLOVAKIA After the end of the first post-meeting session of the government, the Minister of Health Vladimír Lengvarský and the Director of the Institute of Health Analyzes of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic Matej Mišík will inform about the current epidemiological situation.

10:19 SLOVAKIA – According to Prime Minister Eduard Heger, it is too early to evaluate the effect of the vaccine lottery. The prime minister said this before Wednesday’s government meeting.

9:59 SLOVAKIA PCR assays revealed 81 cases of coronavirus and 21 tested positive by antigen assays. Yesterday, 5,380 RT-PCR examinations and 7,513 antigen assays were completed. The number of victims has not increased, informs the National Center for Health Information on the website covid-19.nczisk.sk.

In the last week, the number of positively tested for delta variants is 158 samples out of the total number of 160 sequenced samples. This represents a 98.8 percent share.

The most positively tested RT-PCR tests were in the Bratislava region (22), followed by Košický (14), Banskobystrický (12), Prešovský (10), Trnavský (7), Nitriansky (6), Žilinský (6) and Trenčiansky (4) .

There are 33 men and 48 women among them. The total number of positively tested men is 188,261 and women 206,024.

They admitted three more patients to the hospital, so the number of hospitalized rose to 71. Of these, 47 patients had confirmed Covid-19 disease. There are eight patients at JIS, four people need the support of artificial lung ventilation.

Vaccination also continued on Tuesday, with 2,458 vaccinated Slovaks added. The total number of vaccines administered so far is 4,486,417. 2,355,086 people have received the first dose, and 2,131,331 have already received the second dose.

8:54 WORLD Two more cases of coronavirus in athletes were detected today in a Paralympic village in Tokyo.

Japan will declare a state of emergency in the other eight prefectures, so overall the state of emergency will apply in almost half of the prefectures, including Tokyo. Japan is struggling to spread a more contagious variant of the delta, which is putting pressure on the health system.

8:38 WORLD The Greek region of Messinia in the southwest of the Peloponnese peninsula will be another area facing a mini-lockdown.

The local civil protection office will declare it from Friday in an effort to prevent the spread of covid.

8:30 WORLD There were 250 more cases of coronavirus in the Czech Republic yesterday, which is 40 less than a week ago. According to the Ministry of Health, there are 64 patients in hospitals.

The reproduction number is the fourth day below the unit, indicating a slowdown in the epidemic.

7:40 WORLD The Australian state of New South Wales has reported 919 new cases of coronavirus infection, the highest daily increase since a pandemic.

So far, the daily maximum of those infected in the most populous Australian state has been 830 infections. State Health Secretary Brad Hazzard said the health system was under pressure but could handle the situation.

7:00 SLOVAKIA Covid slot machine turned the Tatras orange for the second week in a row, which means, for example, a limited mode of operation for mountain huts.

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0:01 WORLD – In Hungary, they confirmed the infection with coronavirus only in the case of 0.2 percent of those vaccinated against the covid, said the head of the Hungarian Office of Public Health Service Cecília Müllerová.

She reminded that she has been vaccinated in Hungary for eight months. Müller also noted that in very rare cases, a vaccinated person can also become infected.

However, in such cases, the course of the disease is usually only mild and does not require hospitalization or connection to artificial lung ventilation.

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