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Fico: No-Confidence Motion in Mikulec Fully Supported by Evidence

Fico: No-Confidence Motion in Mikulec Fully Supported by Evidence

Bratislava, June 14 (TASR) – The no-confidence motion in Interior Minister Roman Mikulec (OLaNO) is justified, head of the opposition Smer-SD party Robert Fico stated on Monday at a press conference, adding that there are official records that speak of Mikulec’s inappropriate behaviour and character. According to Fico, the coalition

COVID-Automaton: Two Districts Remain Medium Red, Six Green as of Monday

COVID-Automaton: Two Districts Remain Medium Red, Six Green as of Monday

Bratislava, June 14 (TASR) – Not a single district is coloured black or dark red in the COVID-automaton as Monday, while only two districts are medium red, three light red, 19 orange, 49 yellow, and six green (the lowest-risk level in the scheme). Kysucke Nove Mesto and Myjava are medium red.

President: Slovakia Wounded, We Need to Calm Situation

President: Slovakia Wounded, We Need to Calm Situation

(RTVS, ‘O 5 minut 12’, June 13) Slovakia is wounded; it has experienced a historically unprecedented event, that is the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, President Zuzana Caputova said on RTVS’s discussion programme ‘O 5 minut 12’ (Five Minutes to Twelve) on Sunday, adding that the country needs

Sulik: SaS Stands Behind Heger's Cabinet, We Hope that Election Will Be in 2024

Sulik: SaS Stands Behind Heger's Cabinet, We Hope that Election Will Be in 2024

Pezinok, June 12 (TASR) – The coalition Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) party stands fully behind the Government, led by Prime Minister Eduard Heger (OLaNO), and it fully supports all its members, SaS leader and Economy Minister Richard Sulik stated at the SaS party congress in Pezinok (Bratislava region) on Saturday. Sulik

Lengvarsky: Remaining Vaccines Will Be Sold, Donated or Destroyed

Lengvarsky: Remaining Vaccines Will Be Sold, Donated or Destroyed

Michalovce, June 11 (TASR) – If some COVID-19 vaccines are left over, they can be sold, donated or destroyed as biological material, Health Minister Vladimir Lengvarsky (an OLaNO nominee) said on Friday when visiting eastern Slovakia. Regarding the vaccination with the unregistered Sputnik V vaccine, he will assess it only after

New Mosquito Species, Aedes Japonicus Japonicus, Appears in Slovakia

New Mosquito Species, Aedes Japonicus Japonicus, Appears in Slovakia

Bratislava, June 11 (TASR) – Monitoring of invasive species of mosquito in 2020 showed that a new species – the originally Asian mosquito Aedes japonicus japonicus – had appeared in Slovakia, Zuzana Vetrecin Ceplikova, PR manager of the Biomedical Centre of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV) told TASR on Friday. The occurrence

Presence of Colombian Variant of Novel Coronavirus Confirmed in Slovakia

Presence of Colombian Variant of Novel Coronavirus Confirmed in Slovakia

Bratislava, June 11 (TASR) – Laboratories in Slovakia have confirmed the presence of a new, so-called Colombian variant of novel coronavirus in the country, TASR learnt from Public Health Authority (UVZ) spokesperson Dasa Rackova on Friday. “We’ve identified three cases as being of the so-called Colombian, i.e. B.1.