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The Latest: Slovakia receives 200K Sputnik V vaccine doses By The Associated Press BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — Hard-hit Slovakia has signed a deal to acquire 2 million doses of Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine. Prime Minister Igor Matovic kept the purchase in secret and announced the deal Monday after a military cargo plane with 200,000 doses landed in eastern Kosice city. He said the country will get one million shots in the next two months while another million will arrive in May and Jun...

A victory for Fulham at Crystal Palace on Sunday would leave Newcastle just a point above the drop zone

The EIB signed new loans amounting to €148 million and the EIF committed around €63 million in four equity and guarantee operations, benefiting a total of 2 600 businesses and supporting 25 000 jobs.

The European Commission said yesterday it was suing Slovakia for years-long breaches of legal limits on air pollution and started legal action against Germany and Slovenia for falling short on nature conservation and water treatment. Air pollution in Europe has eased in the past decade, but remains the continent’s biggest environmental health risk. Fine particulate pollution caused 379,000 premature deaths in the EU in 2018, according to the European Environment Agency. Brussels has set legal...

6 February 2021 17:16 Share in: BRATISLAVA. KAZINFORM - A certificate from a negative test for coronavirus not older than seven days will be required for those going to work in the nine most affected districts in Slovakia as of Wednesday (February 10), said Health Minister Marek Krajci (OLANO) after an online Government session, TASR reports. Related news Testing will also be performed in claret and districts of other colours, but less frequen...

The UK coronavirus variant, more infectious than the previously dominant strain, has taken over as the main cause of new COVID-19 cases in Slovakia, Prime Minister Igor Matovic said on Friday.

By Reuters Staff (Refiles to remove typo from headline) PRAGUE, Feb 5 (Reuters) - The UK coronavirus variant, more infectious than the previously dominant strain, has taken over as the main cause of new COVID-19 cases in Slovakia, Prime Minister Igor Matovic said on Friday. The central European country of 5.5 million has struggled to bring down daily cases despite lockdown measures and widespread testing, which is required for people to go out including to work. Hospitals have been strained wit...

News digest: More changes at borders, former PM has a new address Schools should open for some pupils as of Monday, February 8. All four candidates have been recommended for the Special Prosecutors Office. You need to sign in to follow this author: Login | Register Illustrative stock photo (Source: Sme) Font size:A This is th...

Tickets on sale for EHF EURO 2022 matches in Slovakian arenas European Handball Federation02 February 2021, 11:00 Share URL via E-Mail Copy URL to clipboard Tickets are now on sale for handball fans wishing to watch the Men’s EHF EURO 2022 in Slovakia’s two venues. The ticket availability will be of interest to Slovakian and German handball fans, with tickets now on sale for preliminary and main round matches in Bratislava and preliminary round games ...

People in the Upper Nitra region felt a quake The information was confirmed by the Slovak Academy of Sciences. Church in Nová Lehota, where inhabitants felt tremors (Source: Archive of TASR) Font size:A The information was later confirmed by the Earth Science Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV). “There was the epicentre of the earthquake with a magnitude of 3.1 near Nová Lehota,” the institute said, as quoted by the MY Horná Nitra regional daily. Nová Lehota is a borough o...