According to Prime Minister Eduard Heger (OLANO), Slovakia will not have to go into a state of emergency until the end of the year despite the worsening pandemic situation. He said this in private TV Markiza's debate on Sunday. Health Minister Vladimir Lengvarsky (an OLaNO nominee) also prefers to avoid the state of emergency. Addressing the situation concerning the pandemic on the private TV TA3 on Sunday, Lengvarsky conceded that anti-virus measures could be tightened. At the same time, Lengvarsky said that the steep increase in the numbers of new daily coronavirus cases has not come as a surprise, given the low vaccination rate in the country.
Lengvarsky claimed that the vaccination rate among health-care workers currently stands at 70 percent, adding that when it comes to those workers who deal primarily with COVID-19 patients, the rate exceeds 90 percent among doctors and 80 percent among nurses.
Speaking of the anti-vaccination campaign in the country, the minister remarked it continues to grow stronger. "We'll hardly persuade those who don't want to have themselves vaccinated. Our mobile vaccination teams have been attacked in some towns," he remarked.
According to the COVID-automaton, as of Monday only one district - Dunajska Streda - is coloured green (monitoring), while five districts are coloured dark red (a second-degree warning), 39 are red (a first-degree warning) and 34 orange (alert).
Source: TASR
