Almost all of Slovakia is already on red traffic light, the epidemiological situation has deteriorated significantly. There's only seven districts on the orange traffic light, green is none. The current situation was reported today by Minister of Health Marek Krajčí, State Secretary of the Slovak Republic Peter Stachura and Chief Hygiene Officer Ján Mikas. According to the Minister of Health, the situation in Slovakia is serious, every day we record record increases in positive cases for COVID-19.Orange districts - Gelnica, Revúca, Zvolen, Levice, Nové Zámky, Nové Mesto nad Váhom, Kysucké New TownAll the other 72 districts are on the red traffic light.
The average number of positive cases per week continues to rise, rising from 756 to 1341 in the last week. The incidence is also rising - the number of positive people per 100,000 in the last 14 days, from 163 last week to 269. The average number of tests performed has also increased from 7 646 to 9 411 in the last week. The effective reproduction number is 1.3 - 1.5. The proportion of positive tests to all tests carried out (7-day average) is 14.3%. The time during which the number of positive cases is doubled is 7 to 11 days. The number of positives tested in the risk group of persons over 65 continues to increase. The total number of hospitalised patients with COVID-19 disease increased from 324 to 464 and the number of patients on artificial lung ventilation increased from 26 to 51. Currently, the most patients are hospitalized in Prešov region Þ 113, where there are 8 patients on the pulmonary ventilation, followed by Košice region (96), at ventilation 8 and Žilina, where 90 patients are hospitalized, of which not more than – 16 are on artificial lung ventilation. In the Trenčín region is hospitalized/on artificial lung ventilation (63/5), Nitriansky (61/2), Banská Bystrica region (44), Bratislava region (38/1) and Trnava region (35/6). The number of health professionals tested positive for COVID-19 also increased., at 16.10 it was 683 health workers. Some medical institutions have had to suspend or restrict planned healthcare.
