17. March 2020 at 15:22

State analysts: Coronavirus infections to peak in early summer

The first analysis on the spread of the virus estimates that 10 percent of people in Slovakia will be infected.

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If Slovakia had taken no measures linked to the coronavirus, about 45 percent of people in the country would have been infected at the turn of March and April, the analysis of the state-run Institute of Health Policy has shown.

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Thanks to the significant restrictions the government undertook, the peak of the disease should come 110 days since the first infection was confirmed in the country, estimate the analysts of the institute running under the Health Ministry. That means the peak is likely to come in June.

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