The Ministry of Health has evaluated the epidemic situation in the last week. There was a slight improvement. Number of hospiThe talized stopped rising, the reproductive number pbends slightly below 1, and mobility has decreased once measures have been tightened. At the same time, the Ministry presented the division of districts within COvid AUTOMATU next week. The registration for vaccination is pending news.
Health Department presented the current data. The seven-day average antigen and PCR tests performed decreased from 5313 to 4716. PCR test positive is 20 percent and antigen test positive is held at one percent for a long time. The number of people on artificial pulmonary ventilation dropped slightly from 376 to 373. "The assumption for the next period is that the epidemiological situation will gradually improve," said Minister of Health Marek Krajčí. At the same time, he thanked people for complying with the measures in force. State Secretary at the Ministry of Health, Peter Stachura, considers the situation in hospitals to be still very serious. The situation is tense, but it is at least stable and the numbers in individual hospitals do not grow dramatically, said Stachura. He stated that the Ministry had been able to negotiate so that the most difficult patients could go to the spas or specialized institutions after surpassing the cowid. The resort is also working on new legislation in this area. The news in the vaccination was explained by Jana Ježíková, State Secretary for Health. If the promised supplies were to go as planned by suppliers, we would be able to start vaccination with Pfizer this month for residents from 60 years of age. said Ježiková. As she added next week, 100,000 extra doses will come from Pfizer, and so we will have up to 151,000 doses. Every next one will be 51,000. So in March we will have 75 000 Moderns, 300,000 AstraZeneca, 350,000 doses of Pfizer/BioNTech. She also described the launch of the waiting room system. A person who qualifies for vaccination fills in the form, chooses the vaccination site and will be on the waiting list. Once the vaccination area is released, the person will receive a text from the waiting room and may go for vaccination. The waiter can refuse the deadline. From next Monday (15.3.) according to the COVID slot 35 districts will be in the black zone, i.e. in the fourth level of warning. There'll be 41 in the lord zone, three in the red. Overall, Slovakia is in the black phase.