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Slovak prime minister Igor Matovic at last month's EU summit, where he let slip to German chancellor Angela Merkel his plans for mass nationwide testing of citizens (Photo: Igor Matovic/Facebook)

Slovakia: second weekend of nationwide Covid-19 testing

Slovakia is organising its second round of national mass-testing for Covid-19 over the weekend in attempt to turn the tide of the epidemic.

The experiment has sparked both praise and criticism of the government - and has also been somewhat overshadowed by this week's unprecedented arrests of senior ex-police officials and judges on corruption and organised crime charges.

Some 3.6 million people from a 5.5 million population were tested with antigen tests last weekend, as part of...

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Slovak prime minister Igor Matovic at last month's EU summit, where he let slip to German chancellor Angela Merkel his plans for mass nationwide testing of citizens (Photo: Igor Matovic/Facebook)

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Lucia Virostkova is a reporter at Slovak public TV, and worked previously at EUobserver.

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