Prime Minister on reintroducing mandatory state quarantine

"The issue of reintroducing compulsory state quarantine when returning from abroad is appropriate," Prime Minister Igor Matovič said on Wednesday in connection with the increase in new cases with confirmed COVID-19. Slovakia posted nine people infected with the novel coronavirus on Tuesday (June 16) and one person on Wednesday (June 17), bringing the total tally to 1,562 people tested positive for COVID-19. "We must be prepared and we're ready to reintroduce restrictive measures but not only restrictive measures but those that will protect all residents in Slovakia," noted Matovič, adding that e-quarantine was "dramatically less effective" than compulsory state quarantine. He pointed to new cases from other countries and the risk of a second wave of the novel coronavirus outbreak. Mandatory state quarantine as well as so-called e-quarantine was cancelled on June 10. If people come from other than so-called safe countries, they have to go into domestic quarantine.