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Caputova Sends Telegram to Austria, President's Palace to Be in Austrian Colours

Caputova Sends Telegram to Austria, President's Palace to Be in Austrian Colours

Bratislava, November 3 (TASR) – Slovak President Zuzana Caputova said on Tuesday that she was “deeply saddened by the shameful terrorist attack” on six locations in Vienna on Monday evening. “My thoughts are with the families of the victims and the injured, and with the people of Austria. We are united

Seliga Expels LSNS MPs from Chamber for Refusing to Show Negative Test

Seliga Expels LSNS MPs from Chamber for Refusing to Show Negative Test

Bratislava, November 3 (TASR) – Parliamentary Vice-chair Juraj Seliga (For the People) on Tuesday expelled MPs from the far-right LSNS party from the chamber for refusing to submit confirmation of a negative test for COVID-19, TASR learnt on the same day. Seliga repeatedly called on the MPs to submit such confirmation

PM: Slovakia to Organise Repeated Mass Testing, Two Dozen Districts Exempt

PM: Slovakia to Organise Repeated Mass Testing, Two Dozen Districts Exempt

Bratislava, November 2 (TASR) – Slovakia will organise a repeated mass testing for the coronavirus, but districts with positivity rates below 0.7 percent in the testing this past weekend will be exempt from the second round, Prime Minister Igor Matovic (OLaNO) announced after a meeting of the Central Crisis Management

Curfew Doesn't Apply to People with Negative Coronavirus Tests as of Monday

Curfew Doesn't Apply to People with Negative Coronavirus Tests as of Monday

Bratislava, November 2 (TASR) – Curfew rules in place until November 8 are changing in Slovakia as of Monday, with several exemptions introduced, including for people with negative coronavirus test results. Proof of a negative test must be documented by the result of a PCR test carried out on October 29

Expert Consilium Doesn't Recommend 2nd Round of Countrywide Testing

Expert Consilium Doesn't Recommend 2nd Round of Countrywide Testing

Bratislava, November 2 (TASR) – The expert consilium doesn’t recommend a second round of countrywide testing in Slovakia, but antigen testing is recommended in districts where the highest rates of positive results were detected in the first round, i.e. 1.5 percent and higher, TASR learnt on Monday. As

Outlet Operators and Employers Able to Demand Negative Coronavirus Test

Outlet Operators and Employers Able to Demand Negative Coronavirus Test

Bratislava, November 2 (TASR) – As of Monday operators of various facilities (such as shops, outlets) and employers will be able to demand to see a negative coronavirus test result from everyone attempting to enter their premises, the Public Health Office (UVZ) told TASR on Monday, adding that if anybody fails

Cabinet Office and Data Protection Office in Conflict over Coronavirus Tests

Cabinet Office and Data Protection Office in Conflict over Coronavirus Tests

Bratislava, November 1 (TASR) – Slovakia’s Cabinet Office has come into a conflict with the Office for the Protection of Personal Data (UOOU) over the latter’s notification that Chief Hygienist Jan Mikas’s decree allowing employers (and facilities, such as shops, apart from groceries) to demand a negative coronavirus