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1055 SLOVAKIA – The Bratislava region published on its Facebook the first video from the series to support vaccination against covid. Actor Miro Noga talked to pediatrician Elena Prokopová about vaccination children.

10:48 WORLD – Taiwan does not record any new case for the second time in a week. The country vaccinates with Medigen, AstraZeneca and Moderna vaccines.

10:42 WORLD – Australia will start vaccinating the 12 to 15 age group with Pfizer on 13 September.

10:37 WORLD – Russia reports 19,509 new cases in the past 24 hours, of which 1,509 in Moscow, and 798 new victims of the covid, Reuters reports.

10:32 WORLD – The global economy is forecast to lose trillions of dollars due to delayed vaccinations. Countries that will not be able to vaccinate 60% of the population by mid-2022 will lose $ 2.3 trillion between 2022 and 2025, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit.

“Developing countries will bear about two-thirds of these losses,” said Agathe Demarais, director of the EIU’s forecasting department. In absolute numbers, Asia will be “by far the most affected continent”.

Its losses will reach $ 1.7 trillion, or 1.3 percent of the region’s economy. According to the EIU report, sub-Saharan African countries will lose about 3 percent of their projected gross domestic product.

10:25 SLOVAKIA – Trnava region will provide vaccination against covid in shopping malls on Saturday in Piešťany, Trnava, Dunajská Streda and Senica without the need for prior registration.

The Communication Department of the Trnava Self-Governing Region informed about it.

10:11 SLOVAKIA – The total number of people vaccinated with the first dose of the vaccine is 2,366,218, with 2,467 vaccinated the previous day.

The second dose vaccines has already received 2,145,261 people, and 3,642 people have been vaccinated the past day.

10:00 SLOVAKIA – PCR tests revealed 89 new cases, with laboratories processing 5,017 samples. The death toll rose by one to 12,548.

In the last week, the number has tested positive for delta variant 158 samples out of a total of 160 sequenced samples. This represents 98.8% representation.

The most positively tested RT-PCR tests were in the Košice region (19), followed by the Žilina region (17), Bratislavský (15), Prešovský (13), Trenčiansky (8), Trnavský (8), Banskobystrický (7) and Nitriansky (2). ).

There are 42 men and 47 women among them. The total number of positively tested men is 188,382 and women 206,153.

There are 81 patients hospitalized in hospitals, 52 of whom have confirmed the disease. There are 9 patients at JIS, 4 people need the support of artificial lung ventilation.

The number of confirmed victims increased by one person. The total number of “Covid” deaths is 12,548 and the total number of “Covid” deaths is 2,457.

The total number of completed laboratory PCR tests so far is 3,301,773, while 394,535 persons were tested positively. The total number of Ag tests performed so far is 37,706,523, of which 384,559 persons were tested positively.

The total number of inactive cases is 718,814. These are people who have overcome the disease COVID-19 whether with a clinical picture or asymptomatic and since the detection of a positive test, 2 to 4 weeks have elapsed in outpatients and 6 weeks in hospitalized patients.

9:54 SLOVAKIA – Call center of the Ministry of Health registers limited capacity due to a power failure. The ministry informed on Facebook.

9:51 WORLD – New Zealand extends nationwide lockdown on Friday caused by a variant of the coronavirus delta, so it will also apply for next week.

However, the government has warned that pandemic restrictions will last longer in the outbreak in Auckland. The information was provided by the AFP news agency.

Although they reported 70 new cases on Friday, bringing the total to 347, according to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, there are indications that the incidence of the infection will soon culminate if orders to stay at home remain in force.

9:50 WORLD – There are 189 coronavirus infections in Hungary, one person dies, informed the operating staff on the website koronavirus.gov.hu ​​on Friday.

The balance of the coronavirus pandemic in this country has thus been adjusted to 811,706 infected and 30,057 deaths. 6,363 people are currently infected.

82 patients are hospitalized, eight of whom are dependent on the support of artificial lung ventilation.

So far, more than 5.7 million people have been vaccinated with the first dose of the vaccine, of whom more than 5.5 million have also received the second dose.

9:43 SLOVAKIA – Vaccination ends in two large-capacity vaccination centers in Trenčín over the weekend. During the last vaccination weekend, a total of 1,400 vaccines will be prepared in the two vaccination centers.

Lenka Kukučková from the press department of the TSK Office informed about it.

9:40 WORLD – Several persons from risk groups in the Czech Republic have already received third doses vaccines against COVID-19, the news server iROZHLAS.cz informed on Friday.

“These were case units and the doctors considered everything very carefully. A different type of vaccine was used for this application than the original one,” hospital spokeswoman Ludmila Šimáčková told iROZHLAS.

However, she did not provide details on the vaccine given.

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8:59 SLOVAKIA – The Prešov self-governing region continues to be vaccinated during the weekend of 28-29 August. He plans to vaccinate with Janssen, AstraZeneca and Pfizer / BioNTech vaccines.

Those interested can be vaccinated during the national holiday on Sunday, as well as during the gastro festival, which takes place these days in Poprad.

7:49 SLOVAKIA – It has been in the center of Poprad since Wednesday afternoon non-traditional tent vaccination center.

Inside, they give the covid vaccine just like any other vaccination center. Only on Wednesday 69 people used the opportunity to be vaccinated without registration and directly on the street.

6:17 WORLD – Argentine prosecutor’s office accuses Argentine President Albert Fernandez of violating mandatory quarantine, when he organized a birthday party for his girlfriend in July last year.

The leadership case against the president has recently attracted the attention of the local media, as the country has introduced a severe lockdown in an effort to fight the pandemic.

Fernandez himself banned social gatherings last July shortly before he organized a birthday party for his partner Fabio Yáňez.

According to Argentine media, Fernandez also attended a court hearing on Thursday, where he suggested that he pay a fine so that the case could be closed.

6:13 WORLD – According to the latest estimates from Columbia University scientists, almost a third of Americans could become infected with coronavirus in 2020.

The results of their research, published in the British scientific journal Nature, were reported by the DPA agency on Thursday.

Research results of researchers from the Faculty of Public Health at Colombian University suggests that coronavirus infected approximately 103 million people in the United States last year, or 31 percent of the population.

Jeffrey Shaman, a professor of environmental sciences at Columbia University, said that the “overwhelming majority” of those infected had not been included in officially confirmed cases.

According to scientists, officially confirmed cases accounted for only about 10 percent of the actual number of infected in March 2020, and thus at the beginning of the pandemic. Testing was little available at the time, according to the DPA.

However, by December 2020, the situation was better and the cases found at the time accounted for about 25 percent of actual infections.

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