Matovic: Mass testing to start in trial version this weekend

The Central Crisis Team definitively confirmed that trial mass testing of the Slovak population for COVID-19 will start in the districts of Dolny Kubin, Tvrdosin, Namestovo and Bardejov as of Friday (October 23) from 8.00 a.m., with the rest of Slovakia to be tested over the next two weekends, Prime Minister Igor Matovic (OLaNO) announced on Thursday. According to Matovic, this is the only way to avoid a total lockdown.