Slovakia might have squandered its moment to take a breath

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Measures tighten nationwide as the case count rises. Slovakia could have prepared better for the second wave of the epidemic. The harshest economic drop in the post-1993 history is more moderate than expected.

Measures return, less stringent than in the spring for now