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10:35 WORLD – In the last 24 hours, 294 new cases of new coronavirus infections have occurred in Hungary, and 16 people have died from COVID-19.

The last time they recorded a higher daily number of victims was at the beginning of July, the 444.hu news server wrote, referring to data from the operational staff.

The number of hospitalized already exceeded one hundred at the end of August, today 585 people are already in hospital treatment, 86 are connected to artificial lung ventilation.

The number of active infected is 8041, 132 more than on Monday. The current balance of the coronavirus pandemic is 825,170 infected and 30,246 deaths.

Number vaccinated with the first dose vaccines against covid, it rose to almost 5.9 million, more than 5.6 million people received two doses, and 816,000 people received a third dose of the vaccine.

10:25 SLOVAKIA – “Access that if one infected student is in a class, only that class is closed, and minimizing the time these students are at home is the right way to go., “said Michal Rehúš, an analyst at the Center for Educational Analyzes.

He is worried that if there was a greater blocking of schools again, he resigned himself to the solution.

“Schools are to be retrofitted with technology, but this is not likely to happen until the third wave is overwhelmed, and it will probably be too late. “said Rehus.

10:15 SLOVAKIA – There are 664 people in hospitals in connection with the coronavirus. Of these, 83.66 percent are not vaccinated or are incompletely vaccinated, according to the Ministry of Health.

10:08 SLOVAKIA – The number of positively tested for COVID-19 in the burgundy district of Stará Ľubovňa continues to grow.

While at the beginning of September there were 21 cases there, at the end of the month it was 177 cases and last week the number of new cases reached 266, said the regional hygienist Mária Mancalová.

The increase in the number of positives is recorded by the Regional Office of Public Health in Stará Ľubovňa also in the municipalities of Kamienka, Veľký Lipník, Haligovce and Veľká Lesná.

10:05 SLOVAKIA – During yesterday, 1,345 people could be vaccinated with the first dose of covid vaccine, bringing their total number to 2,459,934. 2,338,053 are already fully vaccinated, 1,431 were added yesterday, the Ministry of Health announced.

10:00 SLOVAKIA – In the past day, 1,242 positive people were tested in the form of RT-PCR tests. The laboratories evaluated 11,509 samples (positivity 10.79 percent). Of the positive people, 75 percent did not receive vaccinations.

FROM 23,691 antigen assays showed a positivity of 511 (2, 16 percent), of which 71 percent have not yet been vaccinated.

Coronavirus in Slovakia: Current graphs can be found here

Another 14 people died from Covid-19, bringing the number to 12,690 since the start of the pandemic, announced National Center for Health Information.

There are 664 patients in hospitals, 58 more than in the previous day. 603 people have confirmed the disease, suspicion of Covid-19 has another 61. There are 76 patients at the ICU, 71 people need support for artificial lung ventilation, informed Ministry of Health.

The most positively tested RT-PCR tests were in the Prešov Region (353), followed by the Žilina Region (297), Bratislavský (129), Banskobystrický (126), Košický (122), Trenčiansky (105), Nitriansky (56) and Trnavský (54). ). There are 598 men and 644 women among them. The total number of positively tested men is 199,238 and women 218,264.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, the laboratories have evaluated 3,637,567 PCR tests, and 417,502 were positive. The total number of antigen tests performed is 38,435,586, of which 393,731 were tested positive.

9:23 WORLD – New Zealand will start using covid vaccination certificates from next month. With this certificate, residents will have to prove themselves when entering large mass events and other places where there is a high risk of infection.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the certificates would help prevent mass events such as music festivals from becoming hotbeds. However, she added that it was unlikely that certificates would also be required when visiting medical facilities or food.

9:12 SLOVAKIA – There are currently seven patients with covid in the Košice – Šaca hospital. Martina Pavliková, a spokeswoman for the AGEL SK group, informed about it.

“We are currently providing healthcare to five Covid-19 positive patients in need of oxygen therapy, one for high-flow and one for artificial lung ventilation,” said hospital director Pavol Rusnák.

8:10 WORLD – Tests in the Czech Republic caught 804 infected yesterday. It is less than on Thursday or Friday (less is tested on Saturday and Sunday, which means that the numbers are usually lower), but about 130 more than on Monday a week ago.

8:00 SLOVAKIA – Hospitals are better prepared for the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic than for the second wave, however, the problem is the lack of staff. This was confirmed last week by the President of the Association of Hospitals of Slovakia Marián Petko.

However, the Trnava hospital does not yet record an “unmanageable shortage” of staff, the hospital spokesman Matej Martovič approached.

7:45 SLOVAKIA – There are 2.3 million covid vaccines in stock. If each of them were given a previously unvaccinated person in Slovakia, they would achieve an 85% vaccination rate. That would probably be the limit of collective immunity.

But there is no longer any interest in vaccines. On average, about 2,200 people are vaccinated daily. And ideas for increasing vaccination coverage are running out. The Ministry of Health will try to do this with a new campaign.

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7:00 WORLD – Australia will not let foreign tourists into its territory due to a coronavirus pandemic until next year, said Prime Minister Scott Morrison.

According to him, qualified employees and students will be able to come to the country a little earlier, supplied by the AP agency. Since November, the government wants to allow Australians to travel abroad.

Morrison has previously said that borders will not begin to open until at least 80 percent of the population over 16 is vaccinated in Australia. According to the Ministry of Health, 80 percent of the population over the age of 16 has already received at least one dose of the vaccine, both 57 percent of the people.

6:30 WORLD – Mandatory covid vaccinations for teachers and other education staff have come into force in New York. The obligation was to enter into force at the end of September, due to litigation only on Monday.

According to the mayor of New York Billa de Blasia is the main aim of the measure to build confidence that schools are safe. City officials added that about 95 percent of public school employees already have at least one dose of vaccine. Those who refused to be vaccinated will be sent by schools to unpaid ones vacation.

Mandatory vaccination also applies to health professionals and hospital staff in New York.

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