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From abroad to Slovakia: What repatriations look like

Foreigners with residence are also eligible for repatriations.

People arrived to state facility in Gabčíkovo to spend the obligatory quarantine there.
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News

Coronavirus in Slovakia: Do I really have to stay at home this Easter? (FAQ)

Questions about stricter limits on people's movement during Easter holidays answered.

PM Igor Matovič announces new measures. He called on pensioners to stay home.
News

Good news from Slovakia: the SAV will help teach pupils

Videos from the Slovak Academy of Sciences are expected to be shared via social networks.

Schools are currently empty.
Business

Slump in ads and newsstand sales. Coronavirus impacts media business in Slovakia

Some went out of business, some are reducing salaries. Will the media need state help to keep going?

News

Thousands of people quarantined in five Roma communities

Five communities in three municipalities in Slovakia were closed due to fear of the coronavirus spreading.

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Opinion

American historian: Our enormous wealth means little without a public health system

This situation can and will be exploited later, and I am afraid of that, says historian from Yale University, Marci Shore.

Patients are brought into Wyckoff Heights Medical Center by staff wearing personal protective gear due to COVID-19 concerns, Tuesday, April 7, 2020, in the Brooklyn borough of New York.
Business

Kurzarbeit scheme to salvage big employers

Cabinet promises to introduce detailed measures in the following days.

PM Igor Matovič, accompanied by the ministers of economy, finance, labour and others met for the first time with representatives of the big employees’ sector.
Culture & lifestyle

Slovak artists in isolation portray the burdens of life with coronavirus

They have founded the CoronART virtual art gallery on Facebook.

The picture that began a story of the free and public online art gallery CoronART on Facebook.
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Easter with the coronavirus: Gov't to further limit movement for six days

Meeting relatives and friends is not advised, but outings into nature within one's own district will be allowed.

Questions over Slovakia’s response to climate change security risk

Slovakia's 2017 Security Strategy recognising threat still not approved.

Police officers patrol a northern part of Slovakia's border with Ukraine, which is nearly 100 kilometres long. The border is also an external border of the Schengen Area.

Largest employer in Spiš suspends production for ten days (news digest)

Faculty of Medicine holds its first online final exams, while medical staff in Bojnice wear gas masks to protect themselves. Your overview of news from Slovakia on April 8, 2020.

One of the Roma settlements closed due to the coronavirus is Bystrany.
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A haberdashery in Košice.

Businesses can request aid as of Monday

The Labour Ministry has presented a system of aid for entrepreneurs.

Coronavirus increases cap for contactless payments

More than doubled limit should only be in effect during the pandemic.

Contactless payments are increasing in popularity.

Good news from Slovakia: Kia donated €200,000 to purchase ventilators

It is the only carmaker in Slovakia currently producing.

Kyong-Jae Lee and Richard Sulík
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What Matovič talks about when he talks about a blackout

Slovakia is doing a good job flattening the curve so far, analysts suggest.

Europeans can overcome this crisis together

Solidarity in Europe really saves lives.

Ambassador Christophe Léonzi and Ambassador Joachim Bleicker

How we stopped being comrades

Freedom is not a birthright. No generation receives freedom ready-made and perfect: pre-prepared for consumption.

The For a Decent Slovakia protest gathering in Bratislava in 2019.
Bratislava
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Bratislava launches online guided tours of the capital

Videos are in Slovak but with English subtitles.

Online visit to a lookout tower near Košice

It allows panoramic views of the Slanské mountains and Čierna Hora mountain.

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The onetime mayor's office now houses several permanent exhibitions

Visit Bratislava's Old Town Hall in combination with a trip to the museum of wine.

Old Town Hall (Stará radnica)
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Archaeologists unearth treasure in Obišovce

It was probably hidden by a priest who told no one it was there.

Neither buckets of water nor whips. Celebrate holidays with Easter cuisine

Spectacular Slovakia listeners will lick their fingers at Easter.

An Easter lamb cake is placed in a wooden basket.
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NASA picks a Slovak picture portraying our loss of stars

A young Slovak photographer had another picture featured as the NASA Astronomic picture of the day.

The real panorama of the light pollution. Pictures were taken in Košice, Košicke Olšany, Ďurďošík, Košicky Klečenov - Borda, Beňatina, and near the village of Runina in Poloniny national park.
Craig Ramsay.
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Coach of Slovakia's hockey team gives up on his salary for COVID-19

Craig Ramsey is said to earn €140,000 a season.

Sagan was a winner the moment he began to pedal a bike

I enjoy my life, says the star of the cycling world.

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Petra Vlhová is a ski celebrity but remains an ordinary girl

The Slovak skier is a world champion and has two World Cup globes.

Petra Vlhová after winning the giant slalom at 2019 Alpine World Ski Championships in Are, Sweden.
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