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		</div><p>Slovakia expanded strict coronavirus restrictions including hotel, bar and restaurant closures to almost a half of the country amid a record surge of infections.</p>
<p>The government is expected to discuss additional measures as the country’s health minister joined medical personnel who treat Covid-19 patients in urging Slovaks to get vaccinated.</p>
<p>“Only vaccination can take us through the pandemic,” health minister Vladimir Lengvarsky said.</p>
<p>The measures will affect 36 of the country’s 79 counties.</p>
<p>Indicative of how fast infections are spreading, only five counties had imposed the measures three weeks ago, and another five a week later.</p>
<p>On top of the hotel, bar and restaurant closures, people will be allowed to only buy takeout meals.</p>
<p>Fitness, wellness and aquatic centres also have been shut down.</p>
<p>The maximum number allowed at public gatherings has been reduced to 100 fully vaccinated people.</p>
<p>Face masks are compulsory indoors and outdoors.</p>
<p>Slovakia, which has a population of nearly 5.5 million people, is one of the countries in the European Union that have been hardest hit by the pandemic.</p>
<p>It has registered around 457,431 cases and 12,917 deaths.</p>
<p>Daily infections have set three new records within last week, with the most recent of 6,805 cases being set on Thursday.</p>
<p>The government’s advisory group of health experts has proposed new restrictions such as limits on the movements of the unvaccinated in a bid to forestall a potential collapse of the health system.</p>
<p>About 80% of the 2,108 people who currently need hospital admission in Slovakia were either partially vaccinated or have not received a jab at all.</p>
<p>Many hospitals have started to only treat Covid-19 patients.</p>
<p>Slovakia has one of the lowest vaccination rates in the EU.</p>
<p>Less than half, or 2.41 million people, have been fully vaccinated.</p>
<p>“The vaccination could have prevented most of the deaths,” a petition signed by some 1,300 medical personnel and the health minister said.</p>
<p>“Amid worries that the worst is yet to come, we are asking you to get vaccinated.”</p>
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