On Saturday, during the first day of the second round of national screening tests, almost 1.3 million people were tested for coronavirus – the infection was detected in 0.63 percent. cases.
A week ago, nationwide screening for the new SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus began in Slovakia. The second round of tests began on Saturday.
On November 7, samples collected from 1,297,571 people were tested. A positive result was obtained in 8,172 tests (0.63%).
Over 3.6 million Slovaks were tested for coronavirus last weekend. Then the positive result was obtained in the case of 38,359 tests (1.06%).
Summary data from October 31, November 1 and November 7 indicate that 0.95 percent were positive during screening in Slovakia. with over 4.89 million samples.
During screening in Slovakia, the country of 5.5 million, antigen tests are used, which give a result after several dozen minutes, but are considered less accurate than PCR tests.
Slovak Prime Minister Igor Matović said on Sunday that preliminary results show that thanks to the use of antigen tests it is possible to reduce the transmission of the virus by around 55 percent.
– This is not the success of the government or individual people, but of all those who took part in the action (research – ed.) – said the politician at a press conference, quoted by “The Slovak Spectator”.
The head of the Slovak government called on citizens to comply with sanitary recommendations, to reduce the number of new cases of SARS-CoV-2, and to prevent the healthcare system from becoming overburdened by the number of hospitalized infected people.
The crisis management team is expected to meet on Monday to evaluate the screening results and make further decisions. According to the prime minister, the effects of national research will be visible in about two weeks.
Igor Matović also said that in the future it will be possible to use antigen tests in places where coronavirus outbreaks occur or in regions that want to ease the restrictions in force in connection with the epidemic.
The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, previously known as 2019-nCoV, first appeared in Wuhan probably in mid-November 2019.
The first major outbreak of the coronavirus outbreak was a seafood market in Wuhan, which authorities closed on January 1 due to the spread of the disease.
In early January, Chinese authorities officially admitted that the disease in China is caused by a new virus from the coronavirus family – zoonotic viruses (other known viruses from this family include SARS and MERS).
There is a hypothesis that the virus spread from animals to humans by eating the flesh of wild animals: bats, snakes or pangolins.
The symptoms of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, are fever, cough, muscle pain, weakness. In over 80 percent the course of the disease is mild and flu-like. WHO estimates the mortality rate of the new coronavirus at around 3.4%. (in the case of flu – 0.1%).
The elderly or those suffering from chronic diseases are at increased risk due to the coronavirus epidemic. However, infection with the virus is usually very mild in children.
Source: rp.pl / The Slovak Spectator
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