SUMMARY - Monday, August 16, 2021 - 1 p.m.

NEW POSITIVE PCR TESTS: 7 Positive PCR tests in total: 393,536 NEW POSITIVE ANTIGEN TESTS: 18 Positive antigen tests in total: 384,113 NEW DEATHS: 0 Deaths in total: 12,544 BRATISLAVA - Nine districts are coloured orange (alert) in the COVID-automaton as of Monday, with all other districts remaining green (monitoring). The orange districts are as follows: Gelnica, Kosice I-IV, Kosice-okolie, Poprad, Spisska Nova Ves and Stara Lubovna. BRATISLAVA - New orders in industry in Slovakia reached €4.959 billion in June 2021, an increase of 10.9 percent year-on-year, the Statistics Office reported on Monday. After seasonal adjustments, new orders in June were up by 4.4 percent month-on-month. BRATISLAVA - The Foreign Affairs Ministry hasn't received any information that Slovak citizens were among those killed or injured in Saturday's earthquake in Haiti, ministry spokesman Juraj Tomaga confirmed for TASR on Monday. However, the ministry is still in touch with the local authorities, he added. BRATISLAVA - The Transport Ministry is launching the third stage of aid to the tourism sector under the so-called minimal aid scheme as of Tuesday (August 17), Transport Ministry State Secretary Katarina Brunckova announced at a news conference held on Monday with representatives of the segments concerned in attendance. ko