PRAGUE (Reuters) – Slovakia’s health minister said on Monday he would ask the cabinet to extend a lockdown aimed at slowing the spread of COVID-19 infections by one week until Dec 16.
Slovakia, a country of 5.5 million, has grappled with one of the world’s worst coronavirus waves in the past few weeks and introduced a lockdown that shut most shops and services on Nov. 25.
(Reporting by Jan Lopatka; Editing by Gareth Jones)
