Slovakia death rate down

The death rate in Slovakia fell in January 2022, as did the number of deaths from Covid-19, the Statistics Office reported on Wednesday. A total of 5,349 individuals died in Slovakia in January, of which 573 died from coronavirus. Covid-19 fell from second to fourth place in terms of the most frequent causes of death. According to the Statistics Office, the number of deaths in January was the lowest monthly figure since September 2021, despite the growing Omicron wave. The figures are similar to those seen before the pandemic. "In January, over 2,000 fewer people died in Slovakia than in the previous two months, and 41 percent less than a year ago. The number of deaths in January was just 203 higher than the average for the same month in pre-pandemic years," Zuzana Podmanicka, director of the office's population statistics department, said.