Ex-pats in new Slovak lock-down … let’s help each other AND rely on our local friends

We at the Preservation Society know it can be difficult being a foreigner in a foreign land … not having a command of the language, feeling isolated and simply not being sure what is going on.

So we will be giving regular updates on the extraordinary lock down in Slovakia, the reasons for it, what’s going on and what is the best thing we, as ex-pats, can do.

They will appear on the site and YouTube.

One thing you can be sure of is that your Slovak friends will be on hand to help out where they can and explain what is going on in this little enclave of the world brought to its knees by a greasy little ‘bad bug’.

Okay, so here we go… 2,890 new cases of coronavirus were reported last Friday bringing the total number to 40,801.

This is the highest number of cases since the beginning of the epidemic.

The results of testing with antigen tests in Northern Slovakia are not included.

The post-mortem of 25 patients confirmed they died because of Covid-19 increasing the number of victims to 159.

It is reported that they include two women aged  33 and 48 who died at the University Hospital in Bratislava, a 55-year-old man who died at the hospital in Brezno and another 55-year-old man who died in Vel’ké Kapušany. Other victims were 69 to 92.

New cases are focussed on  Sabinov (172), Prešov (160), Nitra (140), Námestovo (127), Tvdrošin (117), Košice (113), Bratislava (109), Prievidza (102), Banská Bystrica (99) and Bardejov (91).

The new cases are said to be linked to family celebrations and weddings in Northern Slovakia (Tvrdošin, Námestovo, Dolný Kubín) and in the district of Bardejov.

A new local outbreak was reported at a textile factory in Bánovce nad Bebravou. In Bratislava there are cases of pupils and staff of a few schools and kindergartens who tested positive.

Positive cases were reported among ice hockey players of the top league club HC Košice and HK Poprad and among football players at lower league clubs. The ice hockey club in Liptovský Mikuláš also has positive cases in their team.

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