SUMMARY-Thursday, April 15, 2021 - 1 p.m.

NEW POSITIVE PCR TESTS: 843 Positive PCR tests in total: 373,950 NEW POSITIVE ANTIGEN TESTS: 569 Positive antigen tests in total: 364,822 NEW DEATHS: 79 Deaths in total: 10,877 BRATISLAVA - The second dose of vaccine is being administered in Slovakia depending on its type, the Health Ministry and National Centre for Health Information (NCZI) have noted. The second doses of Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines are being administered 28 days after the first shots, while the recommended span between individual doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine is ten weeks. BRATISLAVA - The Prosecutor-General's (PG's) Office has registered a motion filed by extra-parliamentary Good Choice party leader Tomas Drucker in connection with Finance Minister Igor Matovic's (OLaNO) activities during his visits to Russia and Hungary, PG's Office spokesperson Jana Tokolyova told TASR on Thursday. Drucker explained that the reason behind the move is serious concerns that Matovic could have committed sabotage and misused his powers. BRATISLAVA - Prime Minister Eduard Heger (OLaNO) left for his first official foreign trip as premier on Thursday - to the Czech Republic in line with tradition. Heger will first meet Czech President Milos Zeman at Lany Castle. Subsequently, he's scheduled to meet his Czech counterpart Andrej Babis. BRATISLAVA - President Zuzana Caputova appointed seven new judges of general courts at the Presidential Palace in Bratislava on Thursday. The newly appointed judges are Vladislav Biras, Adam Hradsky (both Bratislava III District Court), Ivana Mackova (guest judge at Trencin Regional Court), Peter Molitoris (Presov Regional Court), Martin Spak (Spisska Nova Ves District Court), Jaroslav Supa (Bratislava V District Court) and Radovan Turcik (Kosice Regional Court). BRATISLAVA - It should be made compulsory for the contract for purchasing the Sputnik V vaccine to be published, President Zuzana Caputova stated on Thursday after studying the document and the letter in which the Russians asked Slovakia to return the first and so far only 200,000-dose batch that was delivered in early March. BRATISLAVA - There are huge differences in attitudes towards education and in how long schools have been closed in EU countries, 24 Slovak organisations have stated in a letter sent to the European Commission (EC). The authors of the letter, who represent schools, students, parents, experts in education, psychologists and employers, believe that these differences in protecting the right to education and the impacts of the pandemic on the young generation require the EC's involvement, TASR has learnt from Andrea Hajduchova from an initiative called 'Let's Give Kids a Voice'. BRATISLAVA - The Health Ministry is currently analysing whether it"s possible to release the contract for purchasing the Sputnik V vaccine, TARS was told by ministry spokeswoman Zuzana Eliasova on Thursday. "Health Minister Vladimir Lengvarsky [an OLaNO nominee] has been dealing with the problems concerning the Sputnik V vaccine responsibly since he took up office, with the aim of providing safe vaccination for the Slovak public," said the spokeswoman. ko