Exceptions include weddings, funerals, baptisms and meetings of public authorities. Attendance at wedding receptions will be limited to a maximum of 30 people from 1 October. For example, after a recent wedding in Bardejov in eastern Slovakia, 67 people tested positive.
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In shopping centers can be one customer per ten square meters. The restaurants can be open until ten o’clock in the evening. Food delivery and window sales can operate non-stop.
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Veils will be mandatory indoors and outdoors if strangers are less than two meters apart. The obligation to wear veils for secondary school pupils and secondary school pupils is being extended. Veils are strongly recommended for first grade students.
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Slovakia does not yet include Austria and Hungary in the group of high-risk countries. This was stated by the Slovak Chief Hygienist Ján Mikas after Monday’s meeting of the Central Crisis Staff. Slovakia has included the Czech Republic in the group of high-risk countries since 18 September.
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State of emergency
The crisis staff will present a proposal to introduce a state of emergency at a government meeting on Wednesday. The Central Crisis Staff thus responded to the growing number of people infected with covid-19. In Slovakia, they recorded 265 new cases of coronavirus on Sunday, but for example on Friday it was up to 552 cases. Since the beginning of the pandemic, 9,343 people have tested positive and 44 people have died.
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The largest Slovak universities The Slovak University of Technology and Comenius University are moving to distance learning from 5 October. It concerns about 30,000 students. The rectors of both universities urged students to gradually leave the dormitories.
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