Labour Minister: Slight but steady drop in care home COVID-19 cases

Labour Minister: Slight but steady drop in care home COVID-19 cases

A slight but steady decrease in the number of care homes with cases of coronavirus infection among staff or residents has been observed for several weeks in Slovakia, Labour Minister Milan Krajniak (We Are Family) told a news conference on Tuesday.

At the beginning of February, the Labour Ministry noted that 281 facilities were in crisis, while the number now stands at 257. Krajniak further announced that 11,428 of the 31,000 employees and residents of care homes who applied for vaccination have already been inoculated, which is 37 percent of them.

The so-called German model is being introduced in care homes, which should prevent residents with COVID-19 from getting pneumonia, said Krajniak, adding that the ministry is seeking to apply all well-proven foreign methods in Slovakia.

Romana Grajcarová, Photo: TASR

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