The epidemiological situation related to COVID-19 is deteriorating in Slovakia with increasing numbers of positive, increasing number of risk districts. The Pandemic Commission of the Slovak Government with the participation of Prime Minister Igor Matovič discussed the current situation today. The number of red districts rose to 19, as did 19 orange districts. In Slovakia, 41 districts remain in the green traffic light. The traffic light is updated weekly on the basis of data from regional public health authorities and analysis by the Institute of Health Analysis of the Ministry of Health. Every Friday, information about the red, orange and green regions of Slovakia will be published on the page korona.gov.sk. Currently, 8 districts have been added to the red regions since last week. The districts Bratislava I, Bratislava II, Bratislava III, Bratislava IV, Bratislava V, Michalovce, Nitra, Snina, Trenčín, Trnava and Tvrdošín are currently added districts Dolný Kubín, Komárno, Námestovo, Senec, Skalica, Sobrance, Stará Ľubovňa, and Veľký Krtíš. Friday, September 25, we have 19 risk districts in Slovakia. The orange districts included 12 districts Banská Bystrica, Bardejov, Hlohovec, Ilava, Lučenec, Nové Zámky, Partizánske, Poprad, Prievidza, Púchov, Senica and Trebišov. Together with the districts Dunajská Streda, Galanta, Liptovský Mikuláš, Malacky, Pezinok, Prešov and Sabinov, we have 19 districts in Slovakia, in which the risk is increasing. There is also a risk-increasing number of positive cases of disease in individuals over 65 years of age who are at higher risk of hospitalisation. There have been 211 positive cases in this age group in the last 14 days, while last week this figure was 172. Most of them are now added in Prešov region (56), followed by Žilina region (48), Trnavský (23), Košický (21), Banskobystrický (17), Trenčiansky (17), Nitriansky (15) and at least in Bratislava (14). At the same time as yesterday (24.9.2020) the number of hospitalized patients increased (119), the number of persons in intensive care (14), as well as the number of patients on artificial lung ventilation (11). A week ago, at 17.9.2020, there were 103 patients with confirmed coronavirus in hospitals, 10 for ICU, and 12 patients needed support for artificial pulmonary ventilation. According to the current situation, the average number of positive cases per week is rising by an average of 20%-30%, i.e. in the last week, on average 230 cases per day. Increased incidence, positive population per 100,000 inhabitants
for the last 14 days. To date, the incidence is 43.5. As the number of cases increases, the use of regional public health authorities is also inevitably increasing (72%). At the same time, the average number of tests carried out per week is increasing (4400). An effective reproduction number is also growing, which is 1,206 (a week ago was 1.156), as well as a daily average increase in positive cases (GR), which is currently 5.28% (a week ago 3.91%). Risk regions (25.9.2020)