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Wounds That Won’t Heal: Trauma, Power and Politics in Slovakia – COMMENTARY
16 May 2025
Slovakia is the first country to attempt COVID-19 testing on a national scale. While not uncontested, this could be a potent strategy for staving off further economic and social calamity
As COVID-19 cases surge across Europe, a new mass screening strategy being implemented in Slovakia could prove instructive in providing a continent-wide blueprint for curtailing community transmission, averting loss of life, and reopening shuttered businesses and schools.
Responding to an uptick in cases, the Slovak government has initiated a national testing scheme, requiring its adult population, aged 10-65, to be either tested twice for COVID-19 over two consecutive weekends, free of charge, or complete a 10-day period of home quarantine.
Initial results are promising
Put together in only the span of a week, the mass screening, which makes use of rapid antigen tests that produce results within 30 minutes, was piloted this past weekend in northern regions of the country most impacted by the coronavirus. Initial results appear promising.
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