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Measures against the epidemic in Slovakia will tighten from October, and the government decided on Wednesday to re-declare a health emergency, Slovak Prime Minister Igor Matovic announced, citing an increase in the number of people infected with the coronavirus. Mass events will be prohibited and it will be mandatory to wear the mask outside as well.
In Slovakia, the government declared a state of emergency in March, citing the risk of spreading the coronavirus, which is still in effect, writes MTI.
A health emergency was also declared a few days after the state of emergency was declared in March. The latter, valid for up to 90 days, expired in June. The emergency that the Bratislava government is preparing to declare this time will be of a more general nature, allowing a broader range of measures than the health emergency. “An emergency is needed to stop the further deterioration of the situation,” Slovak Prime Minister Igor Matovic said, following a meeting of central crisis staff at Marquis Commercial Television, citing an increase in the number of people infected with the coronavirus.
Big events are forbidden
The Slovak prime minister also reported on various other austerity measures taken by the crisis team on Monday. One of them is that almost all mass events will be banned in Slovakia from October. The exceptions to this are only weddings, christenings, funerals and town hall meetings, and events whose organizers can guarantee that all participants can present a negative Covid-19 test.
The mask will also be mandatory outside
Also starting in October, the number of guests and buyers in shops and restaurants will once again be limited, of which only those with a seat may be open. Provisions on the use of masks will be tightened again and will become mandatory both indoors and outdoors from October if a distance of at least two meters between individuals cannot be maintained.
Last week, it was suggested that Slovakia put Hungary and Austria on the list of countries at risk in terms of travel, but this suggestion was not approved by the central crisis staff, given that the epidemiological situation in the affected countries is similar and that such a measure would not make sense.
The number of cases is increasing
According to data released by the National Health Information Center on Monday, 265 new infections were recorded in Slovakia on Sunday, based on about 2,000 tests. For about three weeks, the daily average of new infections registered in the country, calculated on the basis of one week’s data, has also been increasing more or less continuously. That was 360 on Sunday, double the data from a week earlier.
In Slovakia, a total of 9,343 people have been diagnosed with the coronavirus since the onset of the disease in the spring and the number of active cases is 5,086. So far, 44 have officially died from the disease. So far, more than 447,000 virus tests have been conducted in the country, the MTI wrote.
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