The situation does not change. The Košice and Prešov regions again have over a hundred infected people – Korzár

EASTERN SLOVAKIA. On Wednesday, laboratories took 8,010 samples for PCR tests, of which 10.35 were positive, representing 829 people.

There were also 175 positive antigen tests out of the total number of 14,909 examined samples, which represents 1.24 percent.

Of the both PCR and antigen tests tested, approximately three quarters were unvaccinated.

Covid-19 was killed by two other patients, for a total of 12,594. The total number of deaths with Covid is 2,461.

The information was provided by portals covid-19.nczisk.sk, korona.gov.sk a Ministry of Health of the SR.

Situation in the regions

Žilina Region (176) reported the most infected in the past day, followed by Košický (142) and Prešovský (109).

Infections also increased in the Trenčín (91), Bratislava (90), Trnava (89) Nitra (69) and Banská Bystrica (63) regions.

Of the districts in the east, Košice (55), Košice-okolie (37), Prešov (34), Michalovce (20) and Svidník (20) report the most infected.

The districts of Spišská Nová Ves (15) and Poprad (11) had less than twenty infected.

Single-digit increase was recorded in the districts of Stará Ľubovňa (9), Humenné (8), Sabinov (7), Sobrance (7), Levoča (6), Snina (4), Trebišov (4), Bardejov (4), Rožňava (3) and Vranov nad Topľou (3).

The districts of Gelnica, Kežmarok, Medzilaborce and Stropkov reported one positive test.

In the east, there were 251 more positive ones.

Vaccination and the condition in hospitals

The number of hospitalized in hospitals increased by 54 in the past day. At present, there are 496 patients with a confirmed covid or suspected covid, more than 83 percent of them did not receive full vaccination.

There are 396 positive patients, of which 54 people are in the intensive care unit, 45 people need artificial lung ventilation.

The first dose vaccines received 3,009 people, from the beginning of vaccination it is already 2,432,830 people.

There were 3,666 fully vaccinated persons, a total of 2,309,759.

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