Coronavirus ONLINE: Almost 200 new cases were added on Tuesday – Aktuality.sk

Most importantly:

– New division of districts from Monday, September 6

– See the current map of confirmed cases in Slovakia and ONLINE statistics

– We watched yesterday.

ONLINE:

17:14 – GREECE: Approximately 10,000 Greek health professionals may temporarily lose their jobs because they could not be vaccinated against the coronavirus. Since Wednesday, vaccination against COVID-19 has become mandatory in Greece for healthcare workers. (TASR)

15:47 – FRANCE: Vaccinated French from at-risk groups may apply for a third dose of covid-19 vaccine from Wednesday. The third dose will be given to people over 65 years of age and those who have other health problems, if at least six months have passed since the completion of the Pfizer and Moderna two-phase vaccines. (ČT24)

14:22 – PUPILS:At the first start of school, the schoolboy’s parent submits a written declaration of his asymptomaticness. The Ministry of Education informs about it.

Parents will be required to submit this statement after each interruption of schooling that lasts three or more consecutive calendar days (including weekends and holidays). According to the COVID automaton, the declaration of asymptomaticness must be documented in all colors of the districts except the green phase. However, the Ministry of Education also recommends it there. (TASR)

13:10 – VACCINES: The fact that we were able to develop and conditionally approve the first mRNA-based vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 infectious disease in less than a year was only possible thanks to decades of research into new mRNA-based technology, the Ministry of Health writes on the social network.

mRNA was first identified in 1961 when scientists discovered that this unstable molecule is an integral part of our bodies and copies information from DNA, thereby directing the production of proteins in our cells. Since then, according to the ministry, development has progressed. This is not a new technology for the coronavirus vaccine.

12:45 – HUNGARY: The school year 2021-2022 started in Hungary on Wednesday, the introduction of which will be significantly milder in terms of epidemiological measures compared to the previous school year. According to the news server vg.hu, the government has prepared for full-time teaching in schools where wearing towels or measuring temperature will not be mandatory, as was the case a year ago (TASR).

12:16 – MINISTER OF EDUCATION: It can no longer happen that we should completely close all schools in the country. On the occasion of the beginning of the new school year 2021/2022, compared to the previous year, this was stated in an interview with TASR by the Minister of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic, Branislav Gröhling (SaS).

“A very important change that has been made compared to the previous wave is that the COVID machine has been modified. It is set up so that all schools, all children and districts will still be open, and we have such a release only in education, “said the Minister of Education. At the same time, he is very pleased that the government, the Ministry of Health and epidemiologists are realizing that it is no longer possible to close schools completely. (TASR)

11:44 – VACCINATION: The total number of people vaccinated with the first dose of the vaccine is 2,382,544, with 2,555 vaccinated the previous day. The second dose of the vaccine has already been received by 2,171,308 people, and 4,221 people have been vaccinated the past day (TASR).

11:00 – HUNGARY: On the last day, 194 people were confirmed to be infected with a new type of coronavirus in Hungary, and one person died in connection with the COVID-19 disease, the operating staff informed on its website on Wednesday (TASR).

10:10 – NEW CASES: Using 6546 RT-PCR tests performed, they detected 199 cases of new coronavirus infection in Slovakia on Tuesday (August 31). The death toll has not increased. This is reported by the National Center for Health Information.

There were also 82 positive tests out of 12,980 antigen tests performed. Delta variants already have almost 99 percent representation.

The most positively tested RT-PCR tests were in the Prešov region (47), followed by Žilinský (32), Košický (30), Bratislavský (28), Trenčiansky (21), Banskobystrický (18), Trnavský (13) and Nitriansky region (10 ). There are 96 men and 103 women among them.

97 patients are hospitalized in hospitals, of which 70 people have confirmed the disease. There are 13 patients at JIS, four people need the support of artificial lung ventilation (TASR)

9:53 – CZECH REPUBLIC: As many as 287 new cases of coronavirus disease were detected by laboratories on Tuesday in the Czech Republic, which is 40 more than on Tuesday a week ago.

The reproduction number is still above one, so the spread of the epidemic is accelerating – it is at 1.05 on Tuesday. Paramedics used 22,391 vaccines on Tuesday, and there are currently 51 people in hospitals, nine of them in critical condition (TASR).

8:48 – USA: The COVID-19 vaccine is still said “no” by one in five Americans, or 20 percent. However, it is also the lowest number of anti-coronavirus vaccine refusers since early April, when the Ipsos research agency began asking people about the subject. (TASR)

8:32 – COLOMBIA: The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Tuesday that it is monitoring a new variant of the coronavirus, which was first reported in Colombia in January. There are fears that it could be resistant to vaccines, the AFP agency reported.

The variant, technically referred to as B.1.621, is called “mi” by the UN Health Agency in its classification in the Greek alphabet. The WHO currently considers it a so-called variant of interest that needs to be further monitored. (TASR)