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Chief Hygienist: Elderly Banned from Shopping Outside Special Hours

Chief Hygienist: Elderly Banned from Shopping Outside Special Hours

Bratislava, April 21 (TASR) – The government-imposed special shopping hours for the elderly, now shortened by an hour to 9-11 a.m. on work days, mean that people aged 65 and more are forbidden to shop at any other time, said Slovakia’s chief hygienist Jan Mikas after a meeting of

Caputova: Our Lives to Be More Similar to Those before Crisis as of Wednesday

Caputova: Our Lives to Be More Similar to Those before Crisis as of Wednesday

Bratislava, April 21 (TASR) – President Zuzana Caputova welcomes the fact that following several weeks of strict safety measures related to the coronavirus outbreak, Slovakia already knows the outlines of their gradual easing. The head of the country posted this on a social network in reaction to the phases of loosening

Analyst: Unemployment Not So Bad Yet, But It's Going to Deteriorate

Analyst: Unemployment Not So Bad Yet, But It's Going to Deteriorate

Bratislava, April 20 (TASR) – Unemployment in Slovakia rose by 0.14 percentage points month-on-month in March to 5.19 percent, with employers’ demand for new staff coming to an almost complete standstill, said UniCredit Bank analyst Lubomir Korsnak on Monday. “Unemployment rose as early as in the first month since

Almost All Clients of Care Home for Elderly in Martin Coronavirus Positive

Almost All Clients of Care Home for Elderly in Martin Coronavirus Positive

Martin, April 18 (TASR) – Eleven members of staff of Martin-based (Zilina region) care home for the elderly and seriously disabled people called “St. Martin’s House” have been positively tested for coronavirus, spokeswoman for the town Zuzana Kalmanova told TASR on Saturday. Martin District Office head Marcel Matovcik earlier in

Mikulec: Migrant Flow Curbed by Coronavirus, But It Isn't Zero

Mikulec: Migrant Flow Curbed by Coronavirus, But It Isn't Zero

Vysne Nemecke, April 17 (TASR) – The coronavirus pandemic has curbed the flow of migrants through woody areas of the Slovak-Ukrainian border, which makes part of the outer Schengen Area border, but it hasn’t squeezed it to zero, said Interior Minister Roman Mikulec (OLaNO), who went to inspect the Vysne

Police Started Criminal Prosecution in Home for Elderly in Pezinok

Police Started Criminal Prosecution in Home for Elderly in Pezinok

Bratislava, April 17 (TASR) – The Bratislava police have started criminal prosecution for a misdemeanour of spreading a dangerous contagious human disease in connection with the case of the new coronavirus spread in the home for the elderly in Pezinok (Bratislava region), the Bratislava police report on a social network on

Health Minister: Community Spread of Coronavirus Confirmed in Zehra

Health Minister: Community Spread of Coronavirus Confirmed in Zehra

Bratislava, April 16 (TASR) – Community spread of the novel coronavirus has been confirmed in the village of Zehra in eastern Slovakia, said Health Minister Marek Krajci (OLaNO) on Thursday. Krajci noted that most of the new positive cases were recorded in a quarantined Roma settlement in Zehra. “Uncontrolled spread of