Slovakia has two other positive cases for disease Covid-19. It is one person from Bratislava and one person from Senec. One is hospitalized at UNB infectology and geographical medicine in Kramáry, The second is in home isolation. A total of 5 cases are confirmed in Slovakia, 491 samples are negative.
At the Clinic of Infectology and Geographic Medicine in UNB on Kramars continue to be hospitalized by three people who have been tested positive COVID-19.
Hygieneists and epidemiologists are on standby, and The outbreak has been seized. RÚVZ with its registered office in Bratislava ensures all the necessary anti-epidemiological measures, with an emphasis on maximum protection of humans and on elimination of the risk of disease spread.
National Reference Centre for Influenza at the Slovak Public Health Office continuously investigate further clinical samples of close contacts confirmed cases.
RÚVZ with its registered office in Bratislava also solves the situation with 4 Slovaks (two children, two adults) who are for confirmed COVID-19 disease in the home insulation in Kittsee, Austria. Children Visit Cambridge International School There was an epidemiological examination carried out on 7.3. Because Preventing the spread of the disease has issued a quarantine measure - interruption education in the period from 9.3 to 22.3.2020.
Health Department evaluates the epidemiological situation on daily basis and if necessary ready to proceed operationally to the next necessary measures.
PRACTICAL INFORMATION:
The public is advised to take precautions to ensure that are effective in relation to droplet diseases (including COVID-19):
- wash your hands often with soap and warm water, at least below 20 seconds. If soap and water is not available, disinfectant should be used an alcohol-based handheld
- do not touch your eyes, nose or mouth with unwashed hands
- cover your nose and mouth when coughing and sneezing with disposable paper Handkerchief and then throw it in the trash
- avoid close contact with people who appear to be cold symptoms, or influenza
- keep a distance of at least one metre between you and anyone coughing or sneezing
- consider participation in mass events and/or high areas human concentration
- care for increased surface disinfection at home
- wearing a protective drape and respirator is important in a sick person with respiratory a disease or in a healthy person who is staying near a person with respiratory disease
- if you are ill, stay at home and contact your caregiver by phone a doctor who will determine the next course of treatment.
Recommendations for travellers after returning to Slovakia:
- Check your health during incubation time – 14 days after return
- Take care of careful hand hygiene, increased disinfection of household surfaces, cough and sneeze in paper handkerchiefs, which will then be thrown into the trash. If can, limit visits to spaces with more people
- if you are free from symptoms and yet suspect a new infection coronavirus, you can from your own decision undergo home isolation for a period 14 days
- if you develop symptoms such as cough, fever, difficulty breathing within 14 days sore throat, head, joints, stay at home and call your doctor Medical emergency or KOS ZZS operator and inform them about your stay in a risky area.