Matovic: Public Health Office to Allow Shift to Home Quarantine Soon

Bratislava, May 22 (TASR) - Prime Minister Igor Matovic (OLaNO) asked the Public Health Office to allow home quarantine not only for people seeking repatriation at border crossings, but also to those currently quarantined at state facilities, TASR learnt from Matovic's social network status update on Friday. Matovic posted this in response to people protesting against the state quarantine at the Austrian-Slovak border. He added that the Public Health Office will adopt home quarantine measures accordingly, to be announced at the time of the launch of e-Quarantine app. About a 100-metre section of D4 highway near Jarovce (Bratislava region) is currently blocked in front of the border police checkpoint by gaggles of Slovaks seeking repatriation. The returning Slovaks are lining up in wait for the expected launch of the state app to enable mandatory 14-day quarantine in home isolation. mf