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UVZ: People Who Recovered from COVID in Past 180 Days Won't Need Test

UVZ: People Who Recovered from COVID in Past 180 Days Won't Need Test

Bratislava, April 16 (TASR) – Negative test for coronavirus won’t be required for an exemption from the curfew in Slovakia from April 19 for those who have recovered from COVID-19 in the past 180 days, as opposed to 90 days according to the current rules, TASR learnt from the Public

UVZ: Swimming Pools, Lidos, Cinemas and Theatres Remain Closed

UVZ: Swimming Pools, Lidos, Cinemas and Theatres Remain Closed

Bratislava, April 16 (TASR) – Swimming pools and lidos, wellness facilities, gyms, theatres, cinemas and concert venues will remain closed even after April 19, when Slovakia is due to ease slightly some of the coronavirus restrictions, TASR learnt from the Public Health Authority (UVZ) on Friday. Shopping centres, which will be

NKU: Health Ministry and UKS Members Shirked Responsibility for Pandemic

NKU: Health Ministry and UKS Members Shirked Responsibility for Pandemic

Bratislava, April 16 (TASR) – Officials of the Health Ministry and members of the Central Crisis Management Team (UKS) were avoiding responsibility in connection with the coronavirus pandemic, leaving decisions up to the Public Health Authority (UVZ), Supreme Audit Office (NKU) vice-chair Lubomir Andrassy said on Friday in connection with an

Some Measures to Be Lifted from Monday, Stores and Services Reopen

Some Measures to Be Lifted from Monday, Stores and Services Reopen

Bratislava, April 13 (TASR) – Slovakia is going to ease its anti-pandemic measures from next Monday (April 19), opening all stores and zoos, and making it possible for people to attend Masses, Finance Minister Igor Matovic (OLaNO) said at a press conference on Tuesday. All shops and services will also be

Bitto Ciganikova: We Should Abandon Country-wide Antigen Testing

Bitto Ciganikova: We Should Abandon Country-wide Antigen Testing

Bratislava, April 13 (TASR) – It would be better for Slovakia to abandon country-wide antigen testing, said parliamentary health committee chair Jana Bitto Ciganikova (Freedom and Solidarity/SaS) on Tuesday, adding that such testing should be reduced to specific cases. The coalition MP pointed to a disparity between the cost of

Matovic: Russians Ask Slovakia to Return Sputnik V and Scrap Contract

Matovic: Russians Ask Slovakia to Return Sputnik V and Scrap Contract

Moscow/Bratislava, April 8 (TASR) – Slovak Finance Minister Igor Matovic (OLANO), who as prime minister in early March arranged the purchase of the Sputnik V vaccine from Russia, announced from his trip to Moscow on Thursday that he was told there that Slovakia should return the vaccine and the relevant

Sputnik V Manufacturer Didn't Supply SUKL with Most of Needed Data

Sputnik V Manufacturer Didn't Supply SUKL with Most of Needed Data

Bratislava, April 8 (TASR) – The manufacturer of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine didn’t provide the State Institute for Supervision of Medicines (SUKL) with approximately 80 percent of the data necessary for its evaluation, TASR has learnt from SUKL head Zuzana Batova, adding that the lack of and inconsistency of